scarecrow

1. n. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger. Source: opted

2. n. A person clad in rags and tatters. Source: opted

3. n. The black tern. Source: opted

4. n. an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds Source: wordnet

5. 1. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger. A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. Dryden. 2. A person clad in rags and tatters. No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat. Shak. 3. (Zoöl.) The black tern. [Prov. Eng.] Source: webster

6. The black tern. [Prov. Eng.] Source: adambom

7. n:100 n. an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds Source: ecdict

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