"Let me set out in the open once, with a good horse under me instead of a specimen of crow-bait, and I'll open your eyes!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis] Reference

Rosinante reincarnate, a gigantic "crow-bait" with a head as long and coarse as an eighteen-hand mule's, an under lip pendulous as a camel's dropping ears nearly long enough to brush flies off his nostrils, with such an ingrowing concavity of under jaw and convexity of face as would have enabled his head to supply the third of a nine-foot circle, a face curved as a scimitar and nearly as sharp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference

Mounting my crow-bait, I struck out in a westerly direction to look for the stock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains] Reference

But say, I won't be in the store more than a second, and it doesn't seem worth while to tie the old crow-bait.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughter of Anderson Crow] Reference

"Come on, crow-bait!" yelled Brann, insultingly, as he came down past the doctor, and seemed about to pass Albert and Maud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other Main-Travelled Roads] Reference

We were some relieved to find the family all right, but Texas Pete had bored one of them poor old crow-bait hosses plumb through the head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Nights] Reference

I haven't seen a crow-bait since I've been in town. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million] Reference