crow's foot

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A small wrinkle in the corner of an eye, emblematic of aging.

   “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.”

2. isim A triangular embroidery stitch.
3. isim A symbol, resembling a bisected equilateral triangle, used in database diagrams to indicate plurality.

   “The crow's-foot notation similarly represents relationships.”

4. isim A number of lines rove through a long wooden block, supporting the backbone of an awning horizontally.
5. isim A caltrop.
6. isim A device for supporting a tripod to prevent the legs from slipping.

   “My foreman with his faked assistant had littered the place with all my apparatus, my bellbox, my crowsfoot, the V-drills, the rods, and the weight, but Malone insisted that we disregard all that and descend ourselves to the lowest level.”

7. isim Certain flowering plants
8. isim especially, in genus Ranunculus