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# daw

noun (plural daws)

«daw» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A daw is a small black bird of the crow family, a jackdaw; the word is old use and mostly found in country speech and old stories. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daw/#m1)

### In the lessons

in old stories, daws are birds that fly and scream with the crows over a house or a garden

### Examples

- The daws nested in the old church tower. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daw/#x1)
- Crows and daws screamed over the garden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daw/#x2)
- We saw a daw on the roof. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daw/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «daw» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daw/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«daw» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/daw.html) on Mova free.