0 a model of a person dressed in old clothes and put in a field of growing crops to frighten birds away
1 an object that looks like a person dressed in old, torn clothes and that stands in a garden or field to frighten birds away
As can be seen, only scarecrow appeared in both dialects.
Note that these are often pejorative and probably rarely used with preschool children (except possibly scarecrow).
The first question to be asked is what is the difference between the scarecrow of 1553 and the one of 1592?
Let us end with scarecrow itself.
It is tenuous enough to derive a scarecrow from this definition, without trying to work out which category of scarecrow the speaker, 'farmer', might be referring to.
I recently quoted the case of kids being used as scarecrows to chase away starlings from a rich farmer's cherry orchard.
There again he had his scarecrow for them.
A range of non-lethal scaring methods including human presence, netting and scarecrows have been previously employed.
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