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crow's-foot

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crow's-foot (krzft)
n. pl. crow's-feet (-ft)
1. A wrinkle or wrinkles at the outer corner of the eye. Often used in the plural: got a face-lift to get rid of crow's-feet.
2. A three-pointed embroidery stitch, especially one in the form of a filled triangle used as finishing, as at the end of a seam.
crow's-foot
n pl -feet
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) (often pl) a wrinkle at the outer corner of the eye
2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Knitting & Sewing) an embroidery stitch with three points, used esp as a finishing at the end of a seam
3. (Engineering / Aeronautics) a system of diverging short ropes to distribute the pull of a single rope, used esp in balloon and airship riggings


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