OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 23

crow

/kɹəʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
corneja • cuervo
A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
Gaslark in his splendour on the golden stairs saying adieu to those three captains and their matchless armament foredoomed to dogs and crows on Salapanta Hills.
palanca
A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
He approached the humble tomb in which Antonia reposed. He had provided himself with an iron crow and a pick-axe: but this precaution was unnecessary.
Watt might have broken the door down, with an axe, or a crow, or a small charge of explosive, but this might have aroused Erskine's suspicions, and Watt did not want that.
cacareo
An ill-tempered and obstinate woman, or one who otherwise has features resembling the bird; a harpy.
(Mrs. Meany to Woody, from a window) "I don't care! I'm not running a pet shop." "Well it looks like one with an old crow in the window!"
But it helps a man along to have a wife he can be proud of. Suppose you marry some old crow. People point at her and ask, 'Who is that death's head yonder?'
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 24

crow

/kɹəʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cacarear
To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.
'You are that Psyche' Cyril said again / 'The mother of the sweetest little maid, / That ever crow'd for kisses.'
This is the Cock that crowed in the Morn[.]