Cawer

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From caw + -er.

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