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# daw

«daw» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small black bird of the crow family, a jackdaw; the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural daws)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daw/#m1)

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «daw» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daw/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.