crow scarer

English

Noun

crow scarer (plural crow scarers)

1. (British) a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare crows and other birds.
2. A farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields.
   • 2004, Marjatta Rahikainen, Centuries of child labour‎^[1], 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..

3. scarecrow (effigy of a person)