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crow scarer en · NOUN
Meanings
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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 […]
2004, Marjatta Rahikainen, Centuries of Child Labour, page 89:
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Synonym of scarecrow (“an effigy fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there”).
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(UK) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare crows and other birds.
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scarecrow