crow scarer

English

Noun

crow scarer (plural crow scarers)

1. A farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields.
   • 2004, Marjatta Rahikainen, Centuries of Child Labour, page 89:

     For example, little Joseph Arch, aged seven or eight years, started as a crow-scarer on a twelve-hour shift, earning four pennies a day. After two or three years he became a ploughboy at six pennies a day […]

2. Synonym of scarecrow (“effigy fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there”)
3. (British) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare crows and other birds.