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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 scare·crow /ˈskɛrˌkro, ˈskær-/
 稻草人,衣衫襤褸的人

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Scare·crow 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.   --Dryden.
 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.   --Shak.
 3. Zool. The black tern. [Prov. Eng.]
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 scarecrow
      n : an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from
          seeds [syn: straw man, strawman, bird-scarer, scarer]