Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CROW'S'-FOOT
CROW'S'-FOOT, n.
In the military art, a machine of iron, with four points, so formed that in whatever way it falls, there is one point upward, and intended to stop or embarrass the approach or march of the enemy's cavalry; a caltrop. – Encyc.
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