fowl

[Fowl]

The noun fowl usually means domesticated birds kept for eating or producing eggs. If your friend brings you eggs from the chickens she keeps in her back yard, you can say that she has pet fowl.

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Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.

Noun
a domesticated gallinaceous bird though to be descended from the red jungle fowl

Noun
the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food

Verb
hunt fowl in the forest

Verb
hunt fowl


n.
Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.

n.
Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).

v. i.
To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.


Fowl

Fowl , n. Instead of the pl. Fowls the singular is often used collectively. [OE. foul, fowel, foghel, fuhel, fugel, AS. fugol; akin to OS. fugal D. & G. vogel, OHG. fogal, Icel. & Dan. fugl, Sw. fogel, f'86gel, Goth. fugls; of unknown origin, possibly by loss of l, from the root of E. fly, or akin to E. fox, as being a tailed animal.] 1. Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.
Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air.
Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not.
Like a flight of fowl Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts.
2. Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus). Barndoor fowl, ∨ Barnyard fowl, a fowl that frequents the barnyard; the common domestic cock or hen.

Fowl

Fowl, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fowled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fowling.] To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.
Such persons as may lawfully hunt, fish, or fowl.
Fowling piece, a light gun with smooth bore, adapted for the use of small shot in killing birds or small quadrupeds.

Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.

To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.

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