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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
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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