kaw
Collocations
3VERB + KAW
horses, murder
KAW + NOUN
herder
PREP.
from, on
Definitions
noun
A member of a particular Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas.
In the winter of 1866 the Cheyennes stole forty-two horses from a Kaw hunting party on the upper Arkansas, and following a murder of a Kaw herder at a buffalo camp near Fort Zarah a year later, the Kaws attacked a Cheyenne encampment[.]
verb
Alternative form of caw.
[…]difficult to separate Raven the demigod, from the sable, kawing, cunning bird so conspicuous all over northern Canada[…]
noun
Alternative form of caw.
Over half of the crows anticipated the feeder, and peered in the window of the building from whence the crow feeder would emerge prior to a feeding session. A majority also called loudly with a short staccato sequence of 3–5 kaws at the start of the feeding session.
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3In the winter of 1866 the Cheyennes stole forty-two horses from a Kaw hunting party on the upper Arkansas, and following a murder of a Kaw herder at a buffalo camp near Fort Zarah a year later, the Ka
Wiktionary[…]difficult to separate Raven the demigod, from the sable, kawing, cunning bird so conspicuous all over northern Canada[…]
WiktionaryOver half of the crows anticipated the feeder, and peered in the window of the building from whence the crow feeder would emerge prior to a feeding session. A majority also called loudly with a short
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