crow scarer

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English

Noun

crow scarer (plural crow scarers)

  1. A farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields.
    • 2004, Marjatta Rahikainen, Centuries of Child Labour, page 89:
      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 []
  2. Synonym of scarecrow (effigy fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there)
  3. (British) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare crows and other birds.