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crow scarers

crow scarers is the plural of crow scarer.

Meaning of crow scarer

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.

Questions about crow scarers

What is crow scarers the plural of?
Crow scarers is the plural of crow scarer.

Words near crow scarers in the dictionary

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

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