crow scarer

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crow scarer

noun crow scarers

A farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields. 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 […]
Synonym of scarecrow (“an effigy fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there”).
Similar: scarecrow
UK A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare crows and other birds.

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@misc{crow_scarer_2026,
  title = {crow scarer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/crow%20scarer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}