Results for fowl
Definitions of fowl:
part of speech: verb intransitive
To catch or kill wild birds for sport or food.
part of speech: noun
A bird, especially, the common rooster or hen; poultry; birds collectively.
part of speech: verb intransitive
To kill fowls by shooting or snaring.
part of speech: verb
To take or catch birds for food, or as game.
part of speech: noun
A bird: a bird of the barndoor or poultry kind, a cock or hen: the flesh of fowl :- pl. FOWLS OR FOWL.
Usage examples for fowl:
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We certainly do not put together the facts that the mouth of the dog is blood- stained and that the fowl has just been killed.
"Kant's Theory of Knowledge", Harold Arthur Prichard -
The Chinese are sometimes classed as ornamental geese on account of their smaller size but they are much more commonly kept than either the Canadian or the Egyptian and make a good market fowl where the demand is not for such a large carcass.
"Ducks and Geese", Harry M. Lamon Rob R. Slocum -
Cut the other parts as in a fowl
"The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches,", Mary Eaton -
A fowl sitting on her eggs.
"Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before", George Turner