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Crow's foot
noun
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Noun
- 1 A small wrinkle in the corner of an eye, emblematic of aging. plural-normally
"You must get a brown gown, and a white apron, and a mob cap, and we must make you a few wrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot at the corner of your eyes, and you will be a very proper, little old woman."
- 2 large tree of Australasia wordnet
- 3 A triangular embroidery stitch.
- 4 a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes wordnet
- 5 A symbol, resembling a bisected equilateral triangle, used in database diagrams to indicate plurality.
"The crow's-foot notation similarly represents relationships."
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- 6 A number of lines rove through a long wooden block, supporting the backbone of an awning horizontally.
- 7 A caltrop.
- 8 A device for supporting a tripod to prevent the legs from slipping.
"My foreman with his faked assistant had littered the place with all my apparatus, my bellbox, my crowsfoot, the V-drills, the rods, and the weight, but Malone insisted that we disregard all that and descend ourselves to the lowest level."
- 9 Certain flowering plants
- 10 Certain flowering plants; especially, in genus Ranunculus
Etymology
From Middle English crowes feet pl.
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