scarecrow

scarecrow is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger. A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. Dryden.

[2] A person clad in rags and tatters. No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I`ll not march with them through Coventry, that`s flat. Shak.

[3] The black tern. [Prov. Eng.]

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