craw

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the crop or food-storage pouch in the throat of a bird or some other animals

   The bird's craw was full of grain gathered from the field.

2. 2
   noun

   dated: the stomach or throat, especially as the imagined seat of courage, appetite, or resentment

   The insult stuck in his craw long after the argument ended.

From Middle English crawe, probably from Old English cræga. The anatomical sense names a bird's crop; figurative phrases such as stick in one's craw treat it as the place where something cannot be swallowed or accepted.

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