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cawer

cawer noun: one who caws, such as or like a bird.

Noun

cawer (plural cawers)

  1. One who caws, such as or like a bird.
    • The Keep within side … a Co(l)lony of Jackdaws have been there many years—I dare say I have seen many a descendant of some old cawer who peeped through the Bars at Charles the first, when he was there in Confinement.1817 April 17, John Keats, letter to J. H. Reynolds, number 22, quoted in 2012, Hyder Edward Rollins, The Letters of John Keats: Volume 1, 1814-1818: 1814-1821, Cambridge University Press, page 131
    • […] melodious choir of young cawers; for be it known that we birds, as well as […]1826, George Wood (Captain, 82nd Regiment), The Rambles of Redbury Rook, page 2

Examples of cawer in a sentence

  • Chough, (Anglo-Sax. ceo, Fr. choucas and chouette;) from the root of Eng. to caw or to haw; as if the cawer or hawer.1841, J. W. Gibbs, “Art. VI.—Origin of the Names of Beasts, Birds, and Insects”, in The American Journal of Science, page 32:
  • As we plunge through the last bushes which separate us from the hawk, twenty cawers rise flurriedly from the ground; […]1853, "Falconry" [from the New Monthly Magazine], in The Living Age, page 275
  • Sauter, the New York taxidermist, makes and sells the decoy owl; a little practice will make a good hooter or cawer.1919 June, The Game Breeder and Sportsman, volume 15, number 3; page 84 of the compiled volumes 14-15

Forms of cawer

pluralcawers

Origin of cawer

From caw + -er.

Questions about cawer

What does cawer mean?
Cawer means one who caws, such as or like a bird.
How do you use cawer in a sentence?
Chough, (Anglo-Sax. ceo, Fr. choucas and chouette;) from the root of Eng. to caw or to haw; as if the cawer or hawer.
What part of speech is cawer?
Cawer is a noun.
What is the plural of cawer?
The plural of cawer is cawers.

Words near cawer in the dictionary

  1. Cawdrey
  2. cawdron
  3. cawdrons
  4. Cawdry
  5. cawed
  6. cawer
  7. cawers
  8. Cawhagan
  9. cawing
  10. cawings
  11. cawk

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