Jackdaw
Definition of jackdaw:
part of speech: noun
part of speech: noun
Usage examples for jackdaw:
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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.