Cawer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cawer is a noun meaning One who caws, such as or like a bird.
Meaning
One who caws, such as or like a bird.
Example Sentences
[…] melodious choir of young cawers; for be it known that we birds, as well as […]
Chough, (Anglo-Sax. ceo, Fr. choucas and chouette;) from the root of Eng. to caw or to haw; as if the cawer or hawer.
As we plunge through the last bushes which separate us from the hawk, twenty cawers rise flurriedly from the ground; […]
The Keep within side … a Co(l)lony of Jackdaws have been there many years—I dare say I have seen many a descendant of some old cawer who peeped through the Bars at Charles the first, when he was there in Confinement.
Word Forms
- cawers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cowerer, cageling, cockscrow, cair, cadge, cuckoo.
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