crow's-foot
Usually crow's-feet. any of the tiny wrinkles at the outer corners of the eyes resulting from age or constant squinting.
Aeronautics. an arrangement of ropes in which one main rope exerts pull at several points simultaneously through a group of smaller ropes, as in balloon or airship rigging.
(in tailoring) a three-pointed embroidered design used as a finish, as at the end of a seam or opening.
Origin of crow's-foot
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How to use crow's-foot in a sentence
About his inquiring eyes were the harassed little crow-feet of anxiety.
Destiny | Charles Neville BuckHe strums the music box and smears good white paper full of crow-feet and pot-hooks.
The Goose Man | Jacob Wassermann
British Dictionary definitions for crow's-foot
(often plural) a wrinkle at the outer corner of the eye
an embroidery stitch with three points, used esp as a finishing at the end of a seam
a system of diverging short ropes to distribute the pull of a single rope, used esp in balloon and airship riggings
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