Meaning of crow | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
2. The cry or call of a rooster or a cockerel, especially as heard at sunrise.
3. Alternative spelling of cro (“marijuana”).
   alt-of, alternative, uncountable
4. A member of a Native American tribe of southern Montana.
5. The Siouan language of this tribe.
6. A surname.
7. Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.
8. A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
9. Someone who keeps watch while their associates commit a crime; a lookout.
   archaic, slang
10. A gangplank (corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.
    historical
11. The mesentery of an animal.
12. An ill-tempered and obstinate woman, or one who otherwise has features resembling the bird; a harpy.
    derogatory
13. A black person.
    ethnic, offensive, slang, slur
14. The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.
    slang

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Examples

“Gaslark in his splendour on the golden stairs saying adieu to those three captains and their matchless armament foredoomed to dogs and crows on Salapanta Hills.”

“He approached the humble tomb in which Antonia reposed. He had provided himself with an iron crow and a pick-axe: but this precaution was unnecessary.”

“Watt might have broken the door down, with an axe, or a crow, or a small charge of explosive, but this might have aroused Erskine's suspicions, and Watt did not want that.”

““Ay,” put in a young man, who had the reputation of being the smartest “crow” in London—“‘fishers of men,’ as the parson says.””

“By nine o'clock on the evening of November 12, 1854, Pierce had his confederates in their places. The crow, Agar's woman, lounged across the street from the Trent mansion.”

“But it helps a man along to have a wife he can be proud of. Suppose you marry some old crow. People point at her and ask, 'Who is that death's head yonder?'”

“(Mrs. Meany to Woody, from a window) "I don't care! I'm not running a pet shop." "Well it looks like one with an old crow in the window!"”

“A young petty officer that must have just received his “crow” (a single chevron, with an eagle over it) was showing off to several seamen.”

“The young man had been threatened with loss of his third class rank, his “crow,” the eagle in a petty officer's sleeve insignia.”

“My young boys hop out the ride in a crop yard searching, tryna find this crow”

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