cawer

Noun

 * 1) One who caws, such as or like a bird.
 * 2) * 1817 April 17, John Keats, letter to J. H. Reynolds, number 22, quoted in 2012, Hyder Edward Rollins, The Letters of John Keats: Volume 1, 1814-1818: 1814-1821, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9781107608207), page 131:
 * The Keep within side [...] a Co(l)lony of Jackdaws have been there many years—I dare say I have seen many a descendant of some old cawer who peeped through the Bars at Charles the first, when he was there in Confinement.
 * 1) * 1826, George Wood (Captain, 82nd Regiment), The Rambles of Redbury Rook, page 2:
 * melodious choir of young cawers; for be it known that we birds, as well as
 * 1) * 1853, "Falconry" [from the New Monthly Magazine], in The Living Age, page 275:
 * As we plunge through the last bushes which separate us from the hawk, twenty cawers rise flurriedly from the ground;
 * 1) * 1919 June, The Game Breeder and Sportsman, volume 15, number 3; page 84 of the compiled volumes 14-15:
 * A decoy owl mounted on a pole in connection with some good hooting or cawing surely will keep the guns hot in a place where crows ar abundant. This combination easily should win a Du Pont crow price. Sauter, the New York taxidermist, makes and sells the decoy owl; a little practice will make a good hooter or cawer.
 * A decoy owl mounted on a pole in connection with some good hooting or cawing surely will keep the guns hot in a place where crows ar abundant. This combination easily should win a Du Pont crow price. Sauter, the New York taxidermist, makes and sells the decoy owl; a little practice will make a good hooter or cawer.