Meaning of cawer | Babel Free

Definitions

One who caws, such as or like a bird.

Examples

“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.”

“[…] melodious choir of young cawers; for be it known that we birds, as well as […]”

“Chough, (Anglo-Sax. ceo, Fr. choucas and chouette;) from the root of Eng. to caw or to haw; as if the cawer or hawer.”

“As we plunge through the last⟳ bushes which separate⟳ us from the hawk, twenty cawers rise⟳ flurriedly from the ground; […]”

“A decoy owl mounted on a pole in connection with some good hooting or cawing surely will keep⟳ the guns hot in a place⟳ where crows ar abundant. This combination easily should win⟳ a Du Pont crow price. Sauter, the New York taxidermist, makes and sells the decoy owl; a little practice will make⟳ a good hooter or cawer.”

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