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单词 scald-crow
释义 scald-crow
Also scalte-, scale-, scaul- (see also E.D.D.).
[? f. scald a.1]
A name in Ireland for the Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix). Also fig.
1834S. Lover Leg. & Stor. Irel. Ser. ii. 281 That one is for that poor scaldcrow there,..little Fairly.1863Kingsley Water-Bab. vii. 268 All the other scaul-crows set upon her, and pecked her to death there and then.1879O'Donovan Merv Oasis (1882) I. i. 8 We tear along,..scaring dozens of white-backed scald-crows.
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