What does crow's-nest mean?

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crow's-nest

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.61 in modern English

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"It was becoming increasingly clear, with every successive sighting from the crow’s-nests, that the Ottomans had more ships."

crow's-nests (plural)

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