Jackdaw

Definition of jackdaw:

part of speech: noun

A species of crow.

part of speech: noun

A glossy kind of crow.

Usage examples for jackdaw:

• It was an awful curse, but none of the guests seemed the worse for it, except the poor jackdaw who had hidden the ring in some sly corner as a practical joke. "Strange Pages from Family Papers", T. F. Thiselton Dyer.

• To quote myself, you will find, in comparing the Jackdaw with the original, that I was obliged to sharpen a point which, though smart enough in the Latin, would in English have appeared as plain and as blunt as the tag of a lace. "The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry", Horace a.k.a. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Translated by John Conington, M. A..

• Fulbert pronounced that a cathedral chorister could never be any great shakes; and Clement could not forgive one who had been frivolous enough to be distracted by a jackdaw but Lance, trusting to his friend's personal attractions to overcome all prejudice, trotted blithely off to the organist- schoolmaster, to beg the loan of the music, and received a promise of a practice in church in the evening. "The Pillars of the House, V1", Charlotte M. Yonge.

• How great, poor jackdaw would thy sufferings be! "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.