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Kaw
//kɔː// noun, verb
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Noun
- 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 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 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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