Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two small corvids (Corvus monedula or C. dauricus) of Eurasia and North Africa, having black and gray or black and white plumage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common daw of Europe, Corvus monedula, an oscine passerine bird of the family Corvidæ.
- noun The boat-tailed grackle, Quiscalus major, a large long-tailed blackbird of the family Agelæidæ. Coues.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
daw , n.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A European bird of the
crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins. - noun A
Daurian jackdaw , a closely related Asian bird (Corvus dauuricus).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery
Etymologies
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Examples
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Are you so weak in natural history or have you forgotten that the jackdaw is a most respectable family bird!
Fathers and Sons 2003
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Are you so weak in natural history, or have you forgotten that the jackdaw is a most respectable family bird?
Chapter XXVI 1917
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It proved to be a kind of jackdaw, of huge stature, which scuttled out of the opening, and disappeared into the summit of Will Tree.
Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery Jules Verne 1866
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The jackdaw is a big-brained, extremely alert, very educable, loquacious bird.] [Illustration: _From Ingersoll's "The Wit of the Wild."
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897
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A few weeks ago at the Tate Modern, my notes say “body parts on a baking tray” and “jackdaw and hooded crow skewered by arrows”.
15 Ways Modern Art Galleries Can Inspire Writers - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn 2009
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Occasionally a jackdaw would rise up briefly to sit on a sheep's back, but the most persistent of these interactions involved a magpie.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk Mark Cocker 2010
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These are the crows corvidae, such as the raven, carrion crow, rook, and jackdaw.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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These are the crows corvidae, such as the raven, carrion crow, rook, and jackdaw.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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These are the crows corvidae, such as the raven, carrion crow, rook, and jackdaw.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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These are the crows corvidae, such as the raven, carrion crow, rook, and jackdaw.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
brtom commented on the word jackdaw
"We are considerably out of pocket over this bally pressman johnny, this jackdaw of Rheims, who has not even been to a university."
Joyce, Ulysses, 15
February 5, 2007
tbtabby commented on the word jackdaw
Features in the shortest possible sentence that includes every letter of the alphabet: "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz." Unless someone out there knows a shorter one.
November 9, 2012