† crowl, v. Obs.
Also 6 crawle, courl.
[app. onomatopœic, having the initial part of croak and kindred words, while the latter part expresses prolonged sound: cf. growl.]
intr. To rumble or make a sound in the stomach and bowels. Hence ˈcrowling vbl. n.
| 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 36 His bely maketh a great crowlynge. 1530 Palsgr. 502/2 My bely crowleth, I wene there be some padockes in it. c 1575 J. Still Gamm. Gurton ii. i, My guts they yawle, crawle, and all my belly rumbleth. 1717 Dict. Rust. Urb. & Bot., Crowling, a Distemper in Cattel, called by some, The crying and fretting of the Guts, the Signs whereof are the Flux of the Belly and abundance of Phlegm. |