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Crow's nest   Listen
noun
crow's nest, crow's-nest  n.  (Naut.) A box or platform near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.






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"Crow's nest" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the 26th July, when every other Crow's nest in Madras had hard-set eggs, or newly-hatched young ones, these two indefatigable birds set methodically to work to construct a nest on the south pillar—the one where all their earlier efforts were made last year, but not the one ...
— The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 • Allan O. Hume

... at first to understand the reasons for my decision, they are now in agreement with me that we can never again live in the Homestead. They love every tree, every shrub on the old place. The towering elms, the crow's nest in the maples, the wall of growing woodbine, the gaunt, wide-spreading butternut branches,—all these are very dear to them, for they are involved with their earliest memories, touched with the glamour which the imagination of youth flings over the humblest scenes ...
— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland



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