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craw
English
Etymology
Akin to Middle Low German krage (“neck, collar”) (whence Danish krave and German Kragen (“collar”) and Old Dutch kraga ("neck") (whence Dutch kraag). See crag (Etymology 2).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k???/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
craw (plural craws)
- (archaic) The stomach of an animal.
- The crop of a bird.
Translations
Synonyms
- crop
- gullet
Derived terms
- stick in one’s craw
Verb
craw (third-person singular simple present craws, present participle crawing, simple past and past participle crawed)
- (archaic) To caw, crow.
Anagrams
- WRAC
Middle English
Noun
craw
- Alternative form of crowe
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muzzle
English
Etymology
From earlier muzle, musle, mousle, mussel, mozell, from Middle English mosel, from Old French musel, museau, muzeau (modern French museau), from Late Latin m?sus (“snout”), probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin m?g?re (“to moo, bellow”). Doublet of museau.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?z?l/
- Rhymes: -?z?l
Noun
muzzle (plural muzzles)
- The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
- Synonym: snout
- (slang, derogatory, by extension) A person's mouth.
- A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
- (firearms) The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
- Coordinate term: breech
- (chiefly Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
- Synonym: bridle
- (obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
muzzle (third-person singular simple present muzzles, present participle muzzling, simple past and past participle muzzled)
- (transitive) To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
- Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor.
- (transitive, obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
- (transitive, obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
- Venus her self would sit Muzzling and Gazing them in the Eyes
- (intransitive) To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
Derived terms
- muzzler
Translations
References
- muzzle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “muzzle”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000
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