WordNet
crow-bait
n. an emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to crows [syn: crowbait]
Usage examples of "crow-bait".
He reeled in the saddle, gave me a glaring look, and slapping spurs to the crow-bait, was away at a dead run.
He swapped it to me for a side of bacon, ten pounds of beans, and a crow-bait mule so’s he could ride out of there.
Each in his way had been kind to the lonely, half-starved boy who rode his crow-bait of a horse into town.