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Definition of Bird-scarer

1. Noun. An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bird-scarer

Literary usage of Bird-scarer

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

1. A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by William Henry Hudson (1910)
"... and I here recall an amusing encounter with a bird-scarer during one of these dreary spells. It was in March, bitterly cold, with an east wind which had ..."

2. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan: Including a Summer in the Upper Karun by Isabella Lucy Bird (1891)
"Then the animals were groomed with box curry-combs, with " clatters" like the noise of a bird-scarer inside them. Fifty curry-combs going at once is like ..."

3. Men of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries, Containing Biographical by Thompson Cooper (1884)
"... published in 1833, and subsequently wrote several works adapted to the capacity of farm labourers' children, one of them entitled " The Bird-Scarer. ..."

4. A Literary Pilgrim in England by Edward Thomas (1917)
"... and when he saw the pale-faced children in school in Ireland, with not so much red in all their faces as a little round-faced bird- scarer he knew, ..."

5. A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by William Henry Hudson (1910)
"... and I here recall an amusing encounter with a bird-scarer during one of these dreary spells. It was in March, bitterly cold, with an east wind which had ..."

6. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan: Including a Summer in the Upper Karun by Isabella Lucy Bird (1891)
"Then the animals were groomed with box curry-combs, with " clatters" like the noise of a bird-scarer inside them. Fifty curry-combs going at once is like ..."

7. Men of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries, Containing Biographical by Thompson Cooper (1884)
"... published in 1833, and subsequently wrote several works adapted to the capacity of farm labourers' children, one of them entitled " The Bird-Scarer. ..."

8. A Literary Pilgrim in England by Edward Thomas (1917)
"... and when he saw the pale-faced children in school in Ireland, with not so much red in all their faces as a little round-faced bird- scarer he knew, ..."

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