crow scarer

plural crow scarers

1. A farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields.

   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 […]

   2004, Marjatta Rahikainen, Centuries of Child Labour, page 89

2. Synonym of scarecrow (“an effigy fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there”).

   Synonyms: scarecrow

3. UKA type of firecracker used by farmers to scare crows and other birds.