n. Idiom: 1. Any of several large glossy black birds of the genus Corvus, having a characteristic raucous call, especially C. brachyrhynchos of North America. 2. A crowbar. as the crow flies In a straight line. [Middle English croue, from Old English crāwe; see gerə-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots. Sense 2, from the resemblance of its forked end to a crow's foot or beak.] |
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