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Caw   /kɔ/   Listen
noun
Caw  n.  The cry made by the crow, rook, or raven.



verb
Caw  v. i.  (past & past part. cawed; pres. part. cawing)  To cry like a crow, rook, or raven. "Rising and cawing at the gun's report."






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"Caw" Quotes from Famous Books



... when he walked out in the sunshine, and heard the hens caw-cawing about the yard, and saw the young colts playing about the barn. And the splendor of the winter day dazzled him as if he were looking upon the broad-flung robe of the Lord Most High. Everywhere the snow lay ridged with purple and brown hedges. Smoke rose peacefully from chimneys, and ...
— Other Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... came over her head, Crying "Caw! Caw!" on their way to bed. She said, as she watched their curious flight, "Little ...
— Baby Chatterbox • Anonymous

... uncle hurried off through the woods until he found Jimmie Caw-Caw, the big black ...
— Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard - Adventures of the Rabbit Gentleman with the Mother Goose Characters • Howard R. Garis

... skinning. At first, not a bird has been in sight, as I have lain on my back and gazed into the spotless blue sky; but hardly has the skin been half withdrawn, than specks have appeared in the heavens, rapidly increasing. "Caw, caw," has been heard several times from the neighbouring bushes; the buzzards have swept down close to my people, and have snatched a morsel of clotted blood from the ground. The specks have increased to winged creatures, at the great height ...
— The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia • Samuel W. Baker

... mysterious stealth: She will mix these pleasures up Like three fit wines in a cup, And thou shalt quaff it:—thou shalt hear Distant harvest-carols clear; 40 Rustle of the reaped corn; Sweet birds antheming the morn: And, in the same moment—hark! 'Tis the early April lark, Or the rooks, with busy caw, Foraging for sticks and straw. Thou shalt, at one glance, behold The daisy and the marigold; White-plum'd lilies, and the first Hedge-grown primrose that hath burst; 50 Shaded hyacinth, alway Sapphire queen of the mid-May; ...
— Keats: Poems Published in 1820 • John Keats


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