Definition of Crowkeeper

1. n. A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow.

Definition of Crowkeeper

1. Noun. A person employed to scare of crows. ¹

2. Noun. A scarecrow. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crowkeeper

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crowkeeper

croweater
croweaters
crowed
crower
crowers
crowfeet
crowflower
crowflowers
crowfoot
crowfoot family
crowfoots
crowing
crowing inspiration
crowingly
crowkeeper (current term)
crowkeepers
crowlike
crown'd
crown-beard
crown-heel length
crown-of-the-field
crown-rump length
crown angulation
crown beard
crown cactus
crown cavity
crown daisy
crown ether

Literary usage of Crowkeeper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1800)
"... like a crowkeeper had become proverbial. " That fellow handles his bow " like a crowkeeper. ..."

2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To swarm ; to be numerous ; to gather together into a multitude. CROWFOOT, (kro'-fat) ns A caltrop. crowkeeper, (kro'-ke-per) n.». A scarecrow. ..."

3. Elizabethan Sonnets by Sidney Lee (1904)
"And when the corn 's sown, or grown into the ear; Practice thy quiver, and turn crowkeeper ! Or being blind, as fittest for the trade, Go hire thyself some ..."

4. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1895)
"And when the corn 's sown, or grown into the ear; Practice thy quiver, and turn crowkeeper! Or being blind, as fittest for the trade, Go hire thyself some ..."

5. The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare & of Elizabethan by Dodgson Hamilton Madden (1897)
"... in short, one who ' handles his bow like ' a woodman, not like ' a crowkeeper.' ' The company were so merry that the absence of William Silence and Anne ..."

6. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1787)
"“That fellow handles his bow like “a crowkeeper.” From the words above quoted it is to be inferred, that, when gunpowder was yet very dear, fields were kept ..."

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