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Fowled

Fowl \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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fowled

vb. (en-past of: fowl)

Usage examples of "fowled".

On the captain's left, as stiff as ever, were colonels Maistroff and Caruthers, burly veteran commanders both, thick fowled, tight lipped clones in different color uniforms.

The tavern-keeper, a hearty red fowled man named Blaxer, greeted them warmly, sending out a boy to look after their horses and personally warming the goat's milk himself.

The thought brought the man's face instantly before his mind's eye, heavy fowled and hard-eyed, glowering down from behind his high bench against the paneled wall of the courtroom, with the clerk looking on from his desk in front of the bench and the other petitioners watching from their stools.

She was sitting at the desk, neatly dressed, her legs crossed, hands fowled in her lap, handbag sitting on the floor beside her.