Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The hoarse raucous sound that is characteristic of a crow or similar bird.
- v. To utter such a hoarse raucous sound.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To cry like a crow, rook, raven, or jackdaw.
- n. The cry of the crow, rook, raven, or jackdaw.
- To drive: as, to caw a nail; to caw cattle to market. Often abbreviated to ca'.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To cry like a crow, rook, or raven.
- n. The cry made by the crow, rook, or raven.
WordNet 3.0
- v. utter a cry, characteristic of crows, rooks, or ravens
- n. the sound made by corvine birds
Etymologies
- Imitative.
Examples
“The "caw" sounded more crowish, or perhaps raveny, obviously just a shout out to her black bird friends, as a way of compensating for her painful whiteness, blondness and blandness.”
“And the murder of crows was in the park again, but took off really quiet with only one tiny "caw" as I walked by after dinner.”
“The birds were identified as Fish Crows primarily by their nasal "caw" notes.”
“At this juncture the "caw" of a crow was heard again.”
“He was crying most pitifully, and as they rode off he flew up high in the air and his pitiful "caw" became fainter and fainter till at last they heard it no more.”
“Meantime I practised terrible vocal exercises, chiefly consisting of a raucous "caw" something like a crow's favourite remark, and advocated by my teacher in elocution for no reason that I can now remember; and I stood before the glass for hours at a time making grimaces so as to acquire the "actor's face," till my frightened little sisters implored me to turn back into myself again.”
“He was crying most pitifully, and as they rode off he flew up high in the air and his pitiful "caw" became fainter and fainter till at they heard it no more.”
“Meantime I practised terrible vocal exercises, chiefly consisting of a raucous "caw" something like a crow's favourite remark, and advocated by my teacher in elocution for no reason that I can now remember; and”
“Now and then the sound of a falling leaf caught my ear, and I shall always remember how a crow, flying high overhead towards the mountains, uttered an ominous "caw"; another crow answered, and there was silence again.”
“Charity, that are indispensable to the success of a _bazaar_, was asking Evans to order for her her "caw," by which term she indicated the vehicle that had conveyed her to the scene of her triumph.”
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