Mew

Quick meaning: Mew is a noun meaning (falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.

Meaning

(falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.

More Meanings

1. (falconry, in the plural) A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.
2. (of a bird) To moult.
3. (archaic, poetic, dialectal) A gull, seagull.
4. (obsolete) A prison, or other place of confinement.
5. (obsolete) A hiding place; a secret store or den.
6. (obsolete) A breeding-cage for birds.
7. (archaic) To shut away, confine, lock up.

Example Sentences

To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall;

More pity that the eagle should be mew’d, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.

From helm to sea they saw him leap, As arrow from the string, And dive into the water deep, As mew upon the wing.

A daungerous and detestable place, To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoarse and bace […]

Word Forms

• mews
• mewing
• mewed

Synonyms for mew

Depending on context, synonyms include miaow, miaou, meow.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include meow, miaow, miaou, seagull, mee, mello.

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