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Meanings of bird-scarer in English

Portuguese
espantalho
Catalan
espantall

An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds.

espantalho
Usage of bird-scarer in English
1
His head is swiveling like a bird-scarer, taking in my twelve square meters of squalor.
The Rhesus Chart
2
They haunted newly-sown fields and would rise, all right, at a shout from a bird-scarer, but were difficult to shoot.
The Irish Times
3
Visiting Salisbury Museum, I found myself eyeballing the last great bustard in Victorian England, shot down by a bird-scarer with a marble in 1871.
The Guardian
4
"'Bird-scarer,'" said the C.S.M.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 8, 1919
Translations for bird-scarer
Portuguese
espantalho
Bird-scarer through the time