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noun

Crowfoot n.

(Bot.) The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.

(Naut.) A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by.

(Mil.) A caltrop. (Written also crow's-foot)

(Well Boring) A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc.

Crow's-foot n. (pl. crow's-feet)

pl. The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes.

(Mil.) A caltrop. (Written also crowfoot)

(Arch.) Same as Bird's-mouth. (U.S.)

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"Crowfoot" Quotes from Famous Books

... in all the largest floral families, as in the crowfoot family, the rose family (which embraces all our fruit trees), the geranium family, the flax family, the campanula family, the convolvulus family, the nightshade family. Then there is a large number of flowers the parts of which go in threes, one of the best known of which is the trillium. In animal ...

— Under the Maples • John Burroughs

... the way, then, and let's get in," said Spargo. "Look here," he continued when they had penetrated into a small vestibule, "doesn't old Crowfoot turn in here ...

— The Middle Temple Murder • J.S. Fletcher

... Common Meadow Buttercup, Tall Crowfoot or Cuckoo Flower; Tall Meadow Rue; Liver-leaf, Hepatica, Liverwort or Squirrel Cup; Wood Anemone or Wind Flower; Virgin's Bower, Virginia Clematis or Old Man's Beard; Marsh Marigold, Meadow-gowan or American Cowslip; Gold-thread or Canker-root; Wild Columbine; Black Cohosh, Black Snakeroot or ...

— Wild Flowers Worth Knowing • Neltje Blanchan et al