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cawing

verbnounattested in dialogue

The act of producing a caw sound.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of cawpresent participle and gerund of caw

noun

  1. 1

    The act of producing a caw sound.

    Whilst the proceedings of the Rooks seemed to be regulated with order and system, their cawings were significant of a good understanding, and the musical tones mentioned by the Editor of "The Naturalist," no one could fail to distinguish.

Forms

plural
cawings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).