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:

• 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