crowfootn.
/ˈkrəʊfʊt/, U.S. /ˈkroʊˌfʊt/ 1. A name for various species of Ranunculus or Buttercup, properly those with divided leaves; but extended as a book-name to the whole genus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Ranunculaceae (crowfoot and allies) > [noun] > crowfoot
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urchin crowfoot1578
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devil's claw1996
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 105 Crowefote, herbe, amarusca.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 114 Ranunculus is called..in Englishe Crowfoot or King cup.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden xlvii. 93 [Wall Pepper] raiseth blisters..as forcibly as Ranunculus or Crowfoot will do.
1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) I. 7 The leaves of the Ranunculus aquatilis, or Water Crowfoot.
1832 Ld. Tennyson May Queen x, in Poems (new ed.) 94 And the cowslip and the crowfoot are over all the hill.
2. Applied to other plants of which the leaves or some other part are taken to resemble a crow's foot:† b. Plantago Coronopus and Senebiera Coronopus; also crowfoot plantain n.
a. Geranium pratense; also called crowfoot cranesbill n., crowfoot geranium n.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxxii. 48 The seventh [kind of Geranium] is called in English Croefoote Geranium.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxiv. 93 Of Buckhorne Plantayne..two kindes of herbes, both comprehended under the name of Crowfoote. The first Crowfoote or Hartshorne, hath long narrow and hearie leaues.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxiv. 94 The second Crowfoote hath..leaues much like to the leaues of the other Crowfoote Plantayne.
c. The wild hyacinth, Scilla nutans (northern and western).
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1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Crows'-feet Craw-feet..2. Wild hyacinth.
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d. Orchis mascula and other species (Yorkshire etc.).
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e. Lotus corniculatus (Gloucestershire). Cf. Britten and Holland Plant-n.
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f. A grass, Dactyloctenium ægyptiacum, common in the southern States; also, the plant Eleusine indica: more definitely crowfoot-grass. (Cf. crow's foot n. 6.) U.S.
3. = crow's foot n. 1.
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the world > life > the body > skin > textures or states of skin > [noun] > wrinkle
rimpleeOE
rivellingOE
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thought-line1858
laughter line1867
laugh line1913
smile-line1921
worry lines1972
1614 J. Davies in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. G5 The crow-feete neere mine Eyne.
1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 15 They..who have served the Muses, till the crow-feet are blackening below their eyes.
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 178 Tracing out..every wrinkle and crowfoot.
4. Nautical.
a. A device consisting of a number of small cords rove through a long block or euphroe n., used to suspend an awning, or to keep the topsail from chafing against the top-rim.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > group of small cords through block
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crow's foot1627
crowfoot dead-eye1769
euphroe1815
centipede1857
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 24 The martnets..are..small lines like crow feet.
1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xiv. 65 The Spritsail Topsails Crowfoot.
1730 W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of ‘Lyell’ 17 Sept. [We] Reeved our Crowfoots.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Crow-foot, a complication of small cords spreading out from a long block..used to suspend the awnings; or to keep the top-sails from striking violently.
1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. i. 128/1 Crow-foot, a number of small lines rove through to suspend an awning.
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b. ‘A kind of stand, attached to the end of mess-tables, and hooked to a beam above’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
c. = beam-arm n. at beam n.1 Compounds 2.
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) Crowfoot or beam-arm is also a crooked timber, extended from the side of a beam to the ship's side, in the wake of the hatchway, supplying the place of a beam.
5. A kind of embroidery-stitch. Also attributive.The first quot. is doubtful.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > stitch > other
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satin stitch1664
feather-stitch1835
Gobelin stitch1838
crowfoot1839
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German stitch1842
petit point1842
long stitch1849
looped stitch1851
hem-stitch1853
loop-stitch1853
faggot stitch1854
spider-wheel1868
dot stitch1869
picot stitch1869
slip-stitch1872
coral-stitch1873
stem stitch1873
rope stitch1875
Vienna cross stitch1876
witch stitch1876
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seed stitch1879
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Japanese stitch1880
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Kensington stitch1881
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cable pattern1882
Italian stitch1882
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shadow-stitch1882
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a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II ccxxvi, in Poems (1878) III. 193 Shee's gone to Schoole; her Cross row and Crow feet Hinder the Huswiferye of her Clay-pies.]
1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard I. ii. ii. 181 She wore a muslin cap, and pinners, with crow-foot edging.
6. Military. A caltrop; = crow's foot n. 3.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > barricade > [noun] > anti-cavalry barrier
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crowfoot1678
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horse de frise1688
hersillon1704
herse1728
crow's foot1772
trou-de-loup1780
cheval-trap1787
frise1809
spear1823
punji stake (or stick)1849
night-cat1863
1678 tr. L. de Gaya Treat. Arms of War 102 The Crow-foot, or Casting Caltrop, are Iron Pricks, made in such a manner, that what way soever they be turned they have alwayes the point upwards.
1688 J. S. Fortification xii. 125 Crow-Feet, Chaus-Traps, or Calthrops, which are four pointed Irons, one Point always upwards.
1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. i. ii. 39 The ploughman turns up the craw-foot, the small Scottish horse-shoe, and the like tokens of [Bannockburn].
7. Mining. ‘A tool with a side-claw, for grasping and recovering broken rods in deep bore-holes’ (Raymond Mining Gloss.).
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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 125 Crow or crow-foot, a tool with a side-claw, for grasping and recovering broken rods in deep bore-holes.
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