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jackdaw Noun a large black-and-grey crowlike bird of Europe and Asia [jack + daw, obsolete name for jackdaw]
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The ugly jackdaw, collecting all the fine feathers which had fallen from the other birds, attached them to his own body and appeared at the examination, looking very gay. "Well, you know," said the sharp-nosed man they called Jackdaw in a squeaky and unsteady voice, raising himself at the other side of the fire, "a plump man gets thin, but for a thin one it's death. Presently it began to grow light enough to read, so I drew out a little pocket copy of the "Ingoldsby Legends" which I had brought with me, and read "The Jackdaw of Rheims. |
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jackdaw - common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery
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