Kaw

//kɔː// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of a particular Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas.

    "In the winter of 1866 the Cheyennes stole forty-two horses from a Kaw hunting party on the upper Arkansas, and following a murder of a Kaw herder at a buffalo camp near Fort Zarah a year later, the Kaws attacked a Cheyenne encampment[.]"

  2. 2
    Alternative form of caw. alt-of, alternative

    "Over half of the crows anticipated the feeder, and peered in the window of the building from whence the crow feeder would emerge prior to a feeding session. A majority also called loudly with a short staccato sequence of 3–5 kaws at the start of the feeding session."

Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of caw. alt-of, alternative

    "[…]difficult to separate Raven the demigod, from the sable, kawing, cunning bird so conspicuous all over northern Canada[…]"

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