Crossword clues for cawing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caw \Caw\ (k[add]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cawed (k[add]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Cawing.] [Imitative. [root]22 Cf. Chough.] To cry like a crow, rook, or raven.
Rising and cawing at the gun's report.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. The act of producing a caw sound. vb. (present participle of caw English)
Usage examples of "cawing".
He stopped suddenly, on the edge of the clearing, and sobbing to himself, caught sight of Blacky, high above the ground, cawing piercingly, warningly.
Ceaseless screeching and cawing and hissing testified to the competition for prime sites among dragonets and puffins, gulls and terns.
The reptile swarm centered above the Castle had now spread until its thinned edges reached this far and farther, but still there came no cawing of alarm from overhead, no gathering of faces at the Castle wall.
His motion was stopped on the backstroke by a scream -a woman's shriek so sudden and so terrible that it sent reptiles cawing up in startlement from their high perches on the overlooking keep.
Their cawing and snarling was heard above, and then the soft thumps of their bodies striking atop the gasbags.
As they walked out upon the empty, crevice-riven field that stretched away toward the fighting, he heard the reptile again, cawing somewhere behind them.
Above them (at a safe altitude) many reptiles were cawing loudly and circling in the sky.
At that moment an enormous crow flew right over us cawing That startled me and I began to laugh.
The huge, black birds swarmed around us, cawing and clacking at us as if we invaded their territory.
Then with a snap and shuffle of their wings, the ravens took to the air, flooding upwards in a long, ragged line towards the distant sky, cawing back at us after they had gained a certain distance.
From inside the left-hand wall came a harsh cawing, a little like ehhif laughter, as if someone thought it was funny.
There was a muffled noise of cawing from the far side of Tower Green: Arhu looked over his shoulder.
It was much nearer this time-under four meters-and it cocked its head, showing us its right eye, then opened its beak and made a soft cawing noise.
When I heard the soft cawing noise and saw that the chain vanished into the opening I realized what it was and where we were.
Now that their voices and the cawings of the rooks had ceased, there was nothing heard but the dry rustle of the leaves, and the plaintive cry of a buzzard hawk hunting over the little tor across the river.