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Crow scarer

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  1. 1
    A farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields.

    "For example, little Joseph Arch, aged seven or eight years, started as a crow-scarer on a twelve-hour shift, earning four pennies a day. After two or three years he became a ploughboy at six pennies a day […]"

  2. 2
    Synonym of scarecrow (“effigy fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there”).
  3. 3
    A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare crows and other birds. British

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