crowbait
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of crowbait
Example Sentences
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“You didn’t sell that old gray crowbait of yours, did you, Carl?”
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
Same here," agreed Bob; "he was sure a first-rate kind of a crowbait.
From Whirligigs by Henry, O.
"Right there is where my lode of information turns to an old spavined crowbait, and folds its wings, for I've pumped it dry."
From Heart of the West by Henry, O.
Old crowbait is scored up and given the word.
From The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
Waiting in the middle of a broad avenue of misshapen obelisks, a dilapidated barouche with a low body sagging the lower for debilitated springs, on either side its pole drooped two sorry specimens of crowbait.
From Alias the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph
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