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Scare-beggar

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A scarecrow. obsolete

    "He is the Terror of all the Deer and Poultry-Stealers in the Neighbourhood, and is ſo implacable a Perſecutor of Pochers^([sic]), that he keeps a Regiſter of all the Dogs and Guns in the Hundred, and is the Scare-Beggar of the Pariſh."

Etymology

From scare + beggar.

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