CROW'S-FOOT Definition & Meaning

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crow's-foot

[krohz-foot]

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noun

plural

crow's-feet

Usually crow's-feet. any of the tiny wrinkles at the outer corners of the eyes resulting from age or constant squinting.
Aeronautics.��an arrangement of ropes in which one main rope exerts pull at several points simultaneously through a group of smaller ropes, as in balloon or airship rigging.
(in tailoring) a three-pointed embroidered design used as a finish, as at the end of a seam or opening.
crowfoot.

crow's-foot

noun

(often plural) a wrinkle at the outer corner of the eye
an embroidery stitch with three points, used esp as a finishing at the end of a seam
a system of diverging short ropes to distribute the pull of a single rope, used esp in balloon and airship riggings

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of crow's-foot¹

1350–1400; Middle English; so called because likened to a crow's foot or footprint

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Annabeth ran her hand along some marks on the ground - a jagged crow’s-foot shape as long as a human body.

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Meanwhile, they who act with too jealous respect for their morrow of civilized comfort, reap only indigestion, and crow's-foot traceries for their deluded eye-corners.

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But saddest to see was between two bars, where a fog was of rushes, and flood wood, and wild celery, and dead crow's-foot.

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Trefoil, crow's-foot, clover, mallow, and wild mustard riot, tangling and interweaving.

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There is the crow's-foot violet, which grows in dry places and is a deep purple; also a little purple violet whose name I do not know.

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crow-pheasant crow's-nest

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