Usually means: High lookout point on ship.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. crow's nest: Merriam-Webster
  2. crow's nest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crow's-nest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crow's-nest, crow's-nest, crow's nest, crow's nest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crow's nest: Vocabulary.com
  6. crow's-nest: Wordnik
  7. crow's nest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crow's-nest, crow's nest: Wiktionary
  9. crow's-nest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crow's-nest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crow's-nest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Crow's-nest, crow's-nest, crow's nest, crows-nest, crows nest: Dictionary.com
  13. Crow's Nest, Crow's Nest (Hong Kong), Crow's Nest (New York), Crows Nest (disambiguation), Crows Nest, Crow's nest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Crow's-nest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. crow's-nest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. crow's nest: Rhymezone
  17. Crow's-nest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. crows nest: FreeDictionary.org
  19. crow's nest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. crow's-nest, crow's nest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crow's nest: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crow's Nest, crows nest: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (crow's nest)

▸ noun:  (nautical) A small open-top shelter, originally a cask, on the top of the foremast, large enough to accommodate a lookout. It was used by whalers to watch for a blow (spout), or in icebound waters to seek a channel.


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