crow's foot
Noun
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Noun
crow's foot
- (usually plural) A small wrinkle in the corner of an eye, emblematic of aging.
- So longe mote ye live, and alle proude,/Til crowes feet be growe under your eye
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224 ↗, pages 305–306 ↗:
- You must get a brown gown, and a white apron, and a mob cap, and we must make you a few wrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot at the corner of your eyes, and you will be a very proper, little old woman.
- The Food and Drug Administration says it's an effective temporary treatment for crow's feet, the wrinkles that form next to aging eyes.
- (sewing) A triangular embroidery stitch.
- (databases) A symbol, resembling a bisected equilateral triangle, used in database diagrams to indicate plurality.
- 2007, Geoff Coffey, Susan Prosser, Filemaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual
- Each crow's foot in your ER diagram indicates the need for a foreign key.
- 2007, Geoff Coffey, Susan Prosser, Filemaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual
- A number of lines rove through a long wooden block, supporting the backbone of an awning horizontally.
- A caltrop.
- A device for supporting a tripod to prevent the legs from slipping.
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