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Kaw

Kaw

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Caw
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Definition 2024


Kaw

Kaw

See also: kaw

English

Noun

Kaw (plural Kaws)

  1. 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)

  1. 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 []