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crow scarer

crow scarer noun: a farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields.

Noun

crow scarer (plural crow scarers)

  1. A farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields.
    • For example, little Joseph Arch, aged seven or eight years, started as a crow-scarer on a twelve-hour shift, earning four pennies a day. After two or three years he became a ploughboy at six pennies a day […]2004, Marjatta Rahikainen, Centuries of Child Labour, page 89
  2. Synonym of scarecrow (“an effigy fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there”).
    Synonyms:
    scarecrow
  3. (UK) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare crows and other birds.

Synonyms of crow scarer

Forms of crow scarer

pluralcrow scarers

Questions about crow scarer

What does crow scarer mean?
Crow scarer means a farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields.
What part of speech is crow scarer?
Crow scarer is a noun.
What is the plural of crow scarer?
The plural of crow scarer is crow scarers.

Words near crow scarer in the dictionary

  1. crow poison
  2. crow pose
  3. crow poses
  4. crow quill
  5. crow quills
  6. crow scarer
  7. crow scarers
  8. crow shark
  9. crow sharks
  10. crow tit
  11. crow tits

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