Meaning of crow scarer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields.
2. Synonym of scarecrow (“effigy fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there”).
3. A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare crows and other birds.
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Examples

“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 […]”

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