the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
verb-intransitive. To cry like a crow, rook, or raven.
n. The cry made by the crow, rook, or raven.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To cry like a crow, rook, raven, or jackdaw.
n. The cry of the crow, rook, raven, or jackdaw.
To drive: as, to caw a nail; to caw cattle to market. Often abbreviated to ca'.
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v. utter a cry, characteristic of crows, rooks, or ravens
n. the sound made by corvine birds
Word Usage
"The "caw" sounded more crowish, or perhaps raveny, obviously just a shout out to her black bird friends, as a way of compensating for her painful whiteness, blondness and blandness."