Daw n. Zool. A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.
The loud daw, his throat
displaying, draws
The whole assembly of his fellow daws. --Waller.
Note: ☞ 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.
Corvus monedula
n : common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery [syn:
jackdaw, daw]