Devon Energy also has acquired many mineral rights acres in the Oil zone of the Utica Play located in Ohio. Utica Shale-Michigan (MI) - August 2011 - Devon Energy (DVN) announced today that the company is exploring the Utica Shale in Ohio and Michigan.
Crow (verb). to shout in exultation or defiance; to brag. Crow (verb). to utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure. Crow (verb). a bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles.
Old English crawe, imitative of bird's cry. Phrase eat crow is perhaps based on the notion that the bird is edible when boiled but hardly agreeable; first attested 1851, American English, but said to date to War of 1812 (Walter Etecroue turns up 1361 in the Calendar of Letter Books of the City of London).