Definition of "caw"

caw

/kɔː/

noun
plural caws
1. The harsh cry of a crow.
verb
third-person singular simple present caws, present participle cawing, simple past and past participle cawed
1. To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven.
  Quotations
  Rising and cawing at the gun's report.
  c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
interjection
1. A rendering of the vocalisation of a crow or other corvid.
  Quotations
  "Amen," said M., in a grave and solemn tone. "Caw," croaked the jackdaw immediately, and with such a sonorous effect, that it disturbed our pious mien and upset our gravity.
  1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 36