Fowl

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various birds of the order Galliformes, especially the common, widely domesticated chicken (Gallus gallus).
  • n. A bird, such as the duck, goose, turkey, or pheasant, that is used as food or hunted as game.
  • n. The flesh of such birds used as food.
  • n. A bird of any kind.
  • verb-intransitive. To hunt, trap, or shoot wildfowl.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A bird.
  • n. A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
  • n. Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans.
  • v. To hunt fowl.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.
  • n. Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).
  • verb-intransitive. To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A bird: generally unchanged in the plural when used in a collective or generic sense.
  • n. Specifically A barn-yard cock or hen; also, a domestic duck or turkey; in the plural, poultry.
  • n. See the qualifying words.
  • To catch or kill wild fowl as game or for food, as by means of decoys, nets, or snares, by pursuing them with falcons or hawks, or by shooting.
  • To hunt wild fowl over or in; catch or kill wild fowl in.
  • An obsolete variant of foul.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
  • v. hunt fowl
  • n. the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
  • v. hunt fowl in the forest
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    fowled    fowling    fowls   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    track down    hunt    run    hunt down   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    fowled    fowling   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Raul    afoul    cowl    crowl    foul    growl    howl    jowl    owl    prowl   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    poultry    turkey    goose    venison    mutton    pigeon    pheasant    veal    lamb    hen