kaw

present singular third person kaws · participle present kawing · participle past kawed · past kawed

1. alternativeAlternative form of caw.

   […]difficult to separate Raven the demigod, from the sable, kawing, cunning bird so conspicuous all over northern Canada[…]

   1968, Ernest Ingersoll, Birds in legend, fable, and folklore

plural kaws

1. alternativeAlternative form of caw.

   Over half of the crows anticipated the feeder, and peered in the window of the building from whence the crow feeder would emerge prior to a feeding session. A majority also called loudly with a short staccato sequence of 3–5 kaws at the start of the feeding session.

   2013, Guenther Witzany, Biocommunication of Animals, page 197

plural Kaws

1. A member of a particular Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas.

   In the winter of 1866 the Cheyennes stole forty-two horses from a Kaw hunting party on the upper Arkansas, and following a murder of a Kaw herder at a buffalo camp near Fort Zarah a year later, the Kaws attacked a Cheyenne encampment[.]

   2004, R. David Edmunds, The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900, →ISBN, page 20

   Synonyms: Kansa