crow's foot
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crow's foot
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From Middle English crowes feet pl.
noun crow's feet · crows' feet · crow's-foot · crowsfoot
- A small wrinkle in the corner of an eye, emblematic of aging. You must get a brown gown, and a white apron, and a mob cap, and we must make you a few wrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot at the corner of your eyes, and you will be a very proper, little old woman.
- A triangular embroidery stitch.
- A symbol, resembling a bisected equilateral triangle, used in database diagrams to indicate plurality. The crow's-foot notation similarly represents relationships.
- A number of lines rove through a long wooden block, supporting the backbone of an awning horizontally.
- A caltrop.
- A device for supporting a tripod to prevent the legs from slipping. My foreman with his faked assistant had littered the place with all my apparatus, my bellbox, my crowsfoot, the V-drills, the rods, and the weight, but Malone insisted that we disregard all that and descend ourselves to the lowest level.
- Certain flowering plants
- especially, in genus Ranunculus
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noun wrinkle in the corner of an eye
| Português | pé de galinha |
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