corbie noun. ['kɔ:bi] Scot. LME.
[from Old French corb var. of corp (see CORBEL) + -IE.]
A raven; a carrion crow. Also corbie-crow.

Comb.:
corbie-gable: having corbie-steps; corbie messenger [after Genesis 8:7]: who returns too late or not at all; corbie-steps projections in the form of steps on the sloping sides of a gable.

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