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Kaw
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Kaw
Kaw
See also: kaw
English
Noun
Kaw (plural Kaws)
- A member of a Native American tribe.
2004, R. David Edmunds, The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900, ISBN 0803267517, page 20:
- In the winter of 1866 the Cheyennes stole forty-two horses from a Kaw hunting party on the upper Arkansas, and following a murder of a Kaw herder at a buffalo camp near Fort Zarah a year later, the Kaws attacked a Cheyenne encampment[.]
Synonyms
- Kausa
Anagrams
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See also: Kaw
English
Verb
kaw (third-person singular simple present kaws, present participle kawing, simple past and past participle kawed)
- Alternative form of caw
- 1968, Ernest Ingersoll, Birds in legend, fable, and folklore
- […] difficult to separate Raven the demigod, from the sable, kawing, cunning bird so conspicuous all over northern Canada […]
- 1968, Ernest Ingersoll, Birds in legend, fable, and folklore