crow's nest

1. 1.

   platform for a lookout at or near the top of a mast

   Broaderplatform

   Part ofship

Questions about crow's nest

What does crow's nest mean?

crow's nest means "platform for a lookout at or near the top of a mast".

Is crow's nest a common word?

crow's nest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.