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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
        Synonyms
        Examples for "scarecrow"
        Examples for "scarecrow"
        1
        He spent part of the afternoon in throwing stones at a scarecrow.
        More William
        2
        The scarecrow simply shrugs and returns to mopping the polished onyx floor.
        The Sandman Book of Dreams
        3
        The next instant the scarecrow figure seemed to fly all to pieces.
        Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; Or, Daring Adventures in Eleph...
        4
        Henceforth you will be described as a scarecrow in all Slavonic fights.
        Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
        5
        I still felt like a scarecrow, but I was on my way.
        On Edge
        1
        When night came down, he decided to risk a scarer approach.
        Rolf in the Woods
        2
        He collects famous scarer memorabilia and has read every scaring text book there is.
        The Guardian
        3
        Whose thrall art thou now, thou lifter of the spoil, thou scarer of the freeborn?
        The Story of the Glittering Plain / Which Has Been Also Called t...
        4
        His head is swiveling like a bird-scarer, taking in my twelve square meters of squalor.
        The Rhesus Chart
        5
        Mike has always dreamed of being a scarer.
        The Guardian
        1
        They even laid out a strawman organization that made sense to me.
        The Complete Rama Omnibus
        2
        I don't want you to think I'm building a strawman here.
        Wired
        3
        One strawman proposal has been advanced, suggesting a leadership split between myself and Dr. Brown.
        The Complete Rama Omnibus
        4
        There is sound logic in the strawman proposal.
        The Complete Rama Omnibus
        5
        We end the so-called strawman provision.
        The Guardian
        1
        The next criticism is a related one: the great ' straw man' offensive.
        The god delusion
        2
        He set up this straw man here, just to keep me company.
        The Tale of Ferdinand Frog
        3
        Ivy hugged me and slipped a little straw man into my hand.
        Cruel Beauty
        4
        And a marvelous straw man to knock down with their scientific exorcisms.
        Gather, Darkness!
        5
        He looked a straw man set out to announce some holiday.
        The road
        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