daw Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery
    Corvus monedula; jackdaw.

WordNet

Daw noun
Etymology
OE. dawe; akin to OHG. taha, MHG. tahe, tahele, G. dohle. Cf. Caddow.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.
    The loud daw, his throat displaying, draw The whole assembly of his fellow daws. Waller.
    ✍ The daw was reckoned as a silly bird, and a daw meant a simpleton. See in Shakespeare: -- "Then thou dwellest with daws too." (Coriolanus iv. 5, 1. 47.) Skeat.
Daw intransitive verb
Etymology
OE. dawen. See Dawn.
Definitions
  1. To dawn. Obs. See Dawn.
Daw transitive verb
Etymology
Contr. fr. Adaw.
Definitions
  1. To rouse. Obs.
  2. To daunt; to terrify. Obs. B. Jonson.

Webster 1913