Words at Play : Top 10 Words with Bizarre Meanings
Definition:
a person employed to scare off crows
About the Word:
Keeping the crows away was once enough of a task to merit its own occupation name; in the first act of Romeo and Juliet, Benvolio scoffed at the idea of Romeo and his buddies "scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper."
It was the technology of the scarecrow, presumably, that made the crowkeeper obsolete.
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