Sekirov Dictionary

fowl

/faʊl/

noun 2
verb 2
adjective 1
forms 5
phrases 1

noun2

A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.
(no longer used) Any bird.

verb2

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To hunt fowl.
- We took our guns and went fowling.
•
To use or traverse in pursuit of fowls.
- They hunt all grounds; and dravv all seas; Foule euery brooke, and bush; to please Their vvanton tasts:[…] — 1611

adjective1

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(no longer used) foul
- Paradise Lost, John Milton Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view / Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause / Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State / Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off / From their Creator, and transgress his Will / For one restraint, Lords of the World besides? / Who first seduc'd them to that fowl revolt?

forms

fowled · fowling · fowls · fowler · fowlest

Phrases with fowl

neither fish nor fowl
Not easily categorized; not rightly belonging or fitting well in a given group or situation; also, not having the advantages of the various options.

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