Definition of Crow

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Definition of Crow

Crow

To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.

To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.

To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.

A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.

A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.

The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.

The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.

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Crow Quotations

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
Muhammad Ali

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
John Lennon

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
Harry S. Truman

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
Al Sharpton

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
Muhammad Iqbal

I think everyone became sick of Sheryl Crow. I actually became sick of Sheryl Crow.
Sheryl Crow

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.
Kathie Lee Gifford

Crow Translations

crow in Danish is krage
crow in Dutch is bonte kraai, kraai
crow in French is corneille
crow in Portuguese is corvo

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