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 --
A scarecrow may stand so long that birds will build their nests from the scarecrow, and drivers of motor cars are becoming indifferent to notices at the entrances to villages.
If they cannot produce a scare, they will produce a scarecrow.
The sun came out through the clouds and shone warmly, and the scarecrow took off his overcoat and put it on the ground.
The wind blew harder and harder but the scarecrow just held the overcoat to its side.
Anything as simple as a scarecrow in a field is an example of that.
The first is a magnet and the second is a scarecrow, except that it frightens away the birds that we want to keep.
There is a patch here and a patch there on the clothes covering the scarecrow, but the scarecrow is still there.
A range of non-lethal scaring methods including human presence, netting and scarecrows have been previously employed.
