The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bird's-mouth \Bird's-mouth`\, n. (Arch.) An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate; -- commonly called crow's-foot in the United States.
Crowfoot \Crow"foot`\ (kr?"f??t`), n.
(Bot.) The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.
(Naut.) A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by.
(Mil.) A caltrop. [Written also crow's-foot.]
(Well Boring) A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc.
--Raymond.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of crow's foot English)
Usage examples of "crow's-foot".
I looked down into her merry dark eyes and noted for the first time the crow's-feet beginning at the comers.
Every day, Sheila would look into the mirror in the morning, and every day would find yet another gray hair, or a crow's-foot or a wrinkle that she was certain had not been there the previous morning.
Gamon, with his silver hair, the crow's-feet that made tracks to the edges of his face, and his shoulders stooped like an elder's, looked like an old man.
Her wide-set brown eyessoft and intelligentwere now graced by a network of tiny crow's-feet, but the long eyelashes, the same almost (but not quite) pug nose, the generous lips that had often brought me to the heights of passion, and the intrepid chin that revealed the true woman behind this dazzling beautyall were truly untouched by age, only heightened by maturity.
Sure I do pro bono work, birth defects mainly, but the bread-andbutter is droopy breasts, hooter breasts, Dixie-cup breasts, bags under eyes, crow's-feet, jowls, turkey necks, liver spots, varicose veins, warts, acne scars, ripple thighs, love handles, hook noses, porky noses, double triple chins, sagging eyelids, sagging upper arms, sagging potbellies, sagging butts.