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- adjective Poetic Marked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes.
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- adjective poetic Marked with
crow's feet ,wrinkles about theeyes .
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Examples
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Master Tressilian to push on a stage farther, rather than pay a reckoning to such a mean-spirited, crow-trodden, henpecked coxcomb, as Gaffer
Kenilworth 2004
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a reckoning to such a mean-spirited, crow-trodden, henpecked coxcomb, as
Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801
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Alighting with great agility, "Brother," cried he, "I think as haw yawrs bean't a butcher's horse, a doan't carry calves well -- I'se make yaw knaw your churning days, I wool -- what, yaw look as if yaw was crow-trodden, you do
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746
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