A scarecrow.

Something that scares or frightens; spec. a scarecrow. Obsolete.

A person or thing employed to turn or frighten away, e.g. a scarecrow: in Hunting, one placed to turn the deer from going in particular…

A scarecrow.

a scarecrow.

= crow-herd n.; also a scare-crow.

A scarecrow; a ragged puppet or grotesque effigy; a guy. Also figurative.

= clacker, n.

A device for frightening birds from growing crops, usually a figure of a man dressed in old and ragged clothes.

a clapper turned by the wind, etc. for scaring away birds.

a person employed to take care of a field or its contents (originally by driving away birds from crops).

A scarecrow, also figurative. Also an artificial bird set up as a mark for shooting at.

? bird-scarer.

The name of various contrivances for making a continuous or repeated clapping noise. spec. A contrivance for scaring away birds, either a rattle…

a scarecrow.

A rattle, worked by the wind, to scare away birds.

? A scarecrow.

A scarecrow; a hobgoblin. Also transferred a person of frightful or unprepossessing appearance.

= cherry-clack n.

a scarecrow.

a scarecrow in a potato field, or with a potato for a head; also figurative.

a rattle driven by the wind for scaring birds from cherry-trees.

(see quot.).

= flay-crake n.

= gally-crow n.

a scarecrow.

transferred. A scarecrow. (In common use in north.)

= tattie-bogle n. at tattie, n. compounds 2.

A scarecrow. Also Hunting, something hung up or set up to keep a deer from entering a particular place, or from going in a particular direction. Also…

an arrangement of twine on and about seed-plots and fruit trees to frighten away birds.