About The Word Fowl
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Fowl
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What's The Definition Of Fowl?
[n] a domesticated gallinaceous bird though to be descended from the red jungle fowl
[n] the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food [v] hunt fowl [v] hunt fowl, as in the forest Synonyms | Synonyms for Fowl: bird | domestic fowl | poultry Related Terms | Find terms related to Fowl: avifauna | baby bird | Bantam | banty | barn-door fowl | barnyard fowl | beat | biddy | bird | bird of Jove | bird of Juno | bird of Minerva | bird of night | bird of passage | bird of prey | birdie | birdlife | birdy | breast | broiler | brooder | broody hen | cage bird | caille | canard | caneton | capon | chanticleer | chapon | chase | chick | chickabiddy | chicken | chicken foot | chicky | cock | cockerel | Cornish hen | course | cygnet | dark meat | dindon | diving bird | dog | domestic fowl | dove | drake | drive | drumstick | duck | duckling | dunghill fowl | eagle | eaglet | faisan | falcon | fish-eating bird | fledgling | flightless bird | flush | follow the hounds | fruit-eating bird | fryer | fulmar | game bird | game fowl | gander | giblets | go hunting | gobbler | goose | gosling | grouse | guinea cock | guinea fowl | guinea hen | gun | hawk | hen | hen turkey | hound | hunt | hunt down | insect-eating bird | jack | jacklight | leg | migrant | migratory bird | neck | nestling | oie | oscine bird | owl | oyster | partlet | partridge | passerine bird | peacock | peafowl | peahen | perching bird | pheasant | pigeon | pigeonneau | poulard | poulet | poult | poultry | prowl after | pullet | quail | ratite | ride to hounds | roaster | rooster | run | sea bird | seed-eating bird | setting hen | shikar | shoot | shore bird | songbird | sport | spring chicken | squab | stalk | start | stewing chicken | still-hunt | storm petrel | stormy petrel | swan | thigh | tom | tom turkey | track | trail | turkey | turkey foot | turkey gobbler | turkey-cock | volaille | wading bird | warbler | water bird | waterfowl | white meat | wild duck | wildfowl | wing | wishbone See Also | chicken | cochin | cochin china | Cornish | dark meat | Dorking | drumstick | gallinaceon | gallinaceous bird | Gallus | Gallus gallus | game fowl | genus Gallus | giblet | giblets | grouse | guinea | guinea fowl | hunt | hunt down | meat | Meleagris gallopavo | Numida meleagris | oyster | parson's nose | Plymouth Rock | pope's nose | poultry | Rock Cornish | run | saddle | second joint | snipe | thigh | track down | turkey | wildfowl | wing | wishbone | wishing bone Fowl In Webster's Dictionary \Fowl\, n.
Note: 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[*a]gel, 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. --Gen. i. 26.
Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not.
--Matt. vi.
26.
Like a flight of fowl Scattered by winds and high
tempestuous gusts. --Shak.
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.
\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. --Blackstone. {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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