Scarecrow /(?)/

Scare·crow

Scarecrow

n.
  1. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
    A scarecrow set to frighten fools away.
  2. A person clad in rags and tatters.
    No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat.
  3. The black tern. (Zool.) [Prov. Eng.]