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 Crowling vbl. sb.
1519. 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.
