Crowbait (Noun)
Meaning
An emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to crows.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The gaunt horse was clearly on its last legs, nothing more than crowbait waiting for the inevitable.
- A long time abandoned, the horse was left to become crowbait, slowly dying from starvation.
- Faced with financial hardship, the farmer reluctantly had to leave his prized horse to become crowbait in the overgrown pasture.
- Tragic to behold, the emaciated creature in the corner of the paddock had reduced to little more than crowbait.
- This broken down and bedraggled creature that used to be a fine animal now serves only as potential crowbait in a pasture left unattended.