Obs. exc. dial. [Echoic: see CROW sb.] = CAW v.: said of rooks or crows.
a. 1658. Ussher, Ann., VI. (1658), 216. The crowes … when the men wandered out of the way in the dark, would with their crawing, call them into the right way again.
1868. Atkinson, Cleveland Gloss., Craw, to caw or croak; said of the crow and rook.
Craw, Sc. and north. form of CROW.
