crow's foot
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.63 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
A symbol, resembling a bisected equilateral triangle, used in database diagrams to indicate plurality.
noun
A number of lines rove through a long wooden block, supporting the backbone of an awning horizontally.
noun
A caltrop.
noun
noun
Example Sentences
- "You must get a brown gown, and a white apron, and a mob cap, and we must make you a few wrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot at the corner of your eyes, and you will be a very proper, little old woman."
- "The Food and Drug Administration says it's an effective temporary treatment for crow's feet, the wrinkles that form next to aging eyes."
- "The crow's-foot notation similarly represents relationships."
- "Each crow's foot in your ER diagram indicates the need for a foreign key."
- "My foreman with his faked assistant had littered the place with all my apparatus, my bellbox, my crowsfoot, the V-drills, the rods, and the weight, but Malone insisted that we disregard all that and descend ourselves to the lowest level."
Etymology
From Middle English crowes feet pl.