cawer
词形变化
释义与例句
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1.
One who caws, such as or like a bird.
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.
[…] melodious choir of young cawers; for be it known that we birds, as well as […]
As we plunge through the last bushes which separate us from the hawk, twenty cawers rise flurriedly from the ground; […]
A decoy owl mounted on a pole in connection with some good hooting or cawing surely will keep the guns hot in a place where crows ar abundant. This combination easily should win a Du Pont crow price. Sauter, the New York taxidermist, makes and sells the decoy owl; a little practice will make a good hooter or cawer.
词源
From caw + -er.
来源:wiktionary