kaw

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Kaw^¹

/kɔː/

Rhymes with -ɔː

noun Kaws

A member of a particular Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas. In the winter of 1866 the Cheyennes stole forty-two horses from a Kaw hunting party on the upper Arkansas, and following a murder of a Kaw herder at a buffalo camp near Fort Zarah a year later, the Kaws attacked a Cheyenne encampment[.]
Similar: Kansa

kaw^²

Rhymes with -ɔː

verb kaws · kawing · kawed

alternative Alternative form of caw […]difficult to separate Raven the demigod, from the sable, kawing, cunning bird so conspicuous all over northern Canada[…]

noun kaws

alternative Alternative form of caw Over half of the crows anticipated the feeder, and peered in the window of the building from whence the crow feeder would emerge prior to a feeding session. A majority also called loudly with a short staccato sequence of 3–5 kaws at the start of the feeding session.

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@misc{kaw_2026,
  title = {kaw},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/kaw},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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