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Fowl   /faʊl/   Listen
noun
Fowl  n.  (instead of the pl. fowls, the singular is often used collectively)  
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, or Barnyard fowl, a fowl that frequents the barnyard; the common domestic cock or hen.



verb
Fowl  v. i.  (past & past part. fowled; pres. part. 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.






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"Fowl" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lord Marquis of Newcastle's dinner we went, and found ourselves regaled with more of good cheer than poor cavaliers could usually offer. There was not only a good sirloin of beer, but a goose, and many choice wild-fowl from the fens of the country. There was plum porridge too, which I had not seen since I left England at my marriage. Every one was so much charmed at the sight that I thought I ought to be so too, but I confess that it was too much for me, ...
— Stray Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge

... so often been asked what could we possibly have to eat that would be appetizing for such lengthy voyages. We always carried fowl in large numbers and it was very seldom that we did not have fresh eggs enough for our table during the voyage. Potatoes, onions, and lemons we always had in abundance and they were very important items of our food. The following is one of the menus served ...
— Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4 • Various

... gave them the same dinner, a roast fowl and a piece of boiled ham, with plum pudding and mince pies to follow, but Deborah's cookery always gave it a different and most ...
— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... you is the tongue of a reindeer, prepared by a Laplander, unrivaled in this useful art. This bird, which yet looks fixedly at you with open eyes, though it died two days ago, you might fancy a barn-door fowl, fattened up by the cook. Not so: it is the briar-cock, the honor of our forests. The two fowls in that dish are not a pair of vulgar pullets, but succulent grouse. I will not mention that haunch of sanglier, which, however, is worthy of a royal table; ...
— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 • Various

... generality of people, it may save some misapprehension if at once it is plainly stated that the following pages are in vindication of a dietary consisting wholly of products of the vegetable kingdom, and which therefore excludes not only flesh, fish, and fowl, but milk and eggs and products ...
— No Animal Food - and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes • Rupert H. Wheldon


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