Crossword clues for fowl
fowl
- Duck or goose
- Duck or chicken
- Chickens, ducks, etc
- Chickens and ducks, e.g
- Chickens and ducks
- Two-legged livestock
- Turkeys, for example
- Turkey or duck
- Some meat
- Quail or turkey, e.g
- Quail and pheasants
- Pheasant, for instance
- Pheasant or partridge
- Pheasant or capon
- Partridge, e.g
- Neither fish nor ---
- Neither fish nor ___
- Flying game
- Fish alternative
- Feathered livestock
- Ducks, say
- Ducks and geese
- Ducks and chickens
- Domestic poultry
- Domestic bird
- Cocks, e.g
- Chicks, ducks, etc
- Chicks and ducks
- Chickens and ducks, for example
- Chicken, pheasant, or turkey
- Chicken-hearted one?
- Bird, maybe domestic
- Bird like a chicken or turkey
- Biddy or capon, e.g
- Barnyard regular
- Bantams, e.g
- Any turducken bird
- Psychologist fellow mistreated bird
- Some game
- Turkeys and such
- Chickens and turkeys
- Poultry
- They're game
- Goose, e.g.
- Gallinacean
- Chicken outside the base line?
- Partridge, e.g.
- Bantam, e.g.
- Fifth-day creation
- Partner of fish and flesh
- Fine bird, one for the table
- Fellow member of parliament gets the bird
- Poultry birds
- Bird, female bird
- Bird revolting loudly
- Bird left further down stream?
- A bird eaten or hunted
- Duck or chicken perhaps following wise bird
- Domesticated bird
- Turkey perhaps unpalatable, by the sound of it
- Coop group
- Feathered friends
- Chicken or turkey
- Turkey, for one
- Two-footed livestock
- Chicks and ducks and geese
- Chicken or turkey, e.g
- Brooding group
- Goose, e.g
- Drumstick source
- Bantam, e.g
- They might be game
- Pheasant or turkey
- Pheasant or capon, e.g
- It may get by on chicken feed
- Feathered farm friend
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fowl \Fowl\ (foul), 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.]
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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.
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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 \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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English fugel "bird, feathered vertebrate," from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, the general Germanic word for "bird" (cognates: Old Saxon fugal, Old Frisian fugel, Old Norse fugl, Middle Dutch voghel, Dutch vogel, German vogel, Gothic fugls "a fowl, a bird"), perhaps a dissimilated form meaning literally "flyer," from PIE *pleuk- (see fly (v.1)).\n
\nDisplaced in its original sense by bird (n.); narrower sense of "barnyard hen or rooster" (the main modern meaning) is first recorded 1570s; in U.S. this was extended to domestic ducks and geese.
Old English fuglian "to catch birds," from the source of fowl (n.). Related: Fowled; fowling. Fowling-piece "gun used for shooting wildfowl" is from 1590s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) A bird. 2 A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail. 3 Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, goose and swans. vb. To hunt fowl.
WordNet
n. a domesticated gallinaceous bird though to be descended from the red jungle fowl [syn: domestic fowl, poultry]
the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food [syn: bird]
v. hunt fowl
hunt fowl in the forest
Wikipedia
Fowl are birds belonging to one of two biological orders, namely the gamefowl or landfowl ( Galliformes) and the waterfowl ( Anseriformes). Studies of anatomical and molecular similarities suggest these two groups are close evolutionary relatives; together, they form the fowl clade which is scientifically known as Galloanserae (initially termed Galloanseri). This clade is also supported by morphological and DNA sequence data as well as retrotransposon presence/absence data.
The term fowl refers to certain birds often used as food by humans, which make up the Galloanserae clade.
Fowl can also refer to:
- Fowl Records, a record label
- Fowl River, a river in Alabama
- Fowl Star, a fictional ship in the Artemis Fowl book series
- Artemis Fowl, a book series written by Eoin Colfer
- Ms. Winifred Fowl, a character in the Jimmy Neutron movie and series
- F.O.W.L., evil organization in Darkwing Duck series
- Friends of Wikileaks, or FoWL, is a social network in support of WikiLeaks
Usage examples of "fowl".
This human cargo represents a weight of about twenty tons, which is equivalent to that of thirty persons, two boars, three sows, twelve piglets, thirty fowls, ten dogs, twenty rats, a hundred balled or potted breadfruit and banana plants, and twelve tons of watergourds, seeds, yams, tubers, coconuts, adzes and weapons.
Its light glimmered on the river and on the wings of carrion fowl awheel overhead.
The succulent aroma of barbecuing pork wafted through the chill spring air, and fragrant clouds of hickory smoke rose from the fires near the smithy, where haunches of venison, sides of mutton, and broiled fowl in their dozens turned on spits.
Arthur Chace for fowl murder of Jessie Tilsit in Pentonville prison and i was assistant when .
Canowe, whilst himselfe by fowling sought them victuall, who finding he was beset with 200 Salvages, two of them hee slew, still defending himself with the ayd of a Salvage his guide, whom he bound to his arme with his garters, and used him as a buckler, yet he was shot in his thigh a little, and had many arrowes stucke in his cloathes but no great hurt, till at last they tooke him prisoner.
I thought you could eat a roast fowl with as good an appetite as mine, I would dine here.
Daphnis to see her, goes a fowling before Dryas his Cottage, and looks as if he minded not her.
Wild fowl stuffed with ocean grasses of dulse and laver surrounded the pig as did several varieties of steamed and boiled fish, including delicately poached salmon dressed with watercress.
Right along the outbuildings extended a large dunghill, from which manure liquid oozed, while amidst fowls and turkeys, five or six peacocks, a luxury in Chauchois farmyards, were foraging on the top of it.
He would live as free and dutiless as the fowls of the air, and for this the hunters brought Him to earth with arrows.
Foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, Rift Valley fever, vesicular stomatitis, vesicular exanthema, hog cholera, African swine fever, fowl plague, Newcastle disease, and equine encephalomyelitis.
As for me, I ate of fishes that never swam in earthly seas, and of strange fowl that never flapped a way through thick terrestrial air, ate and drank as happy as a king, and falling each moment more and more in love with the wonderfully beautiful girl at my side who was a real woman of flesh and blood I knew, yet somehow so dainty, so pink and white, so unlike other girls in the smoothness of her outlines, in the subtle grace of each unthinking attitude, that again and again I looked at her over the rim of my tankard half fearing she might dissolve into nothing, being the half-fairy which she was.
That is, each is esteemed for a special virtue or faculty, as the large gerfalcon for the chase of heron, the smaller goshawk for the chase of river fowl.
And duck shops hung row upon row, over their ceilings and in their doors, the brown baked ducks that had been turnd slowly on a spit before coals and the white salted ducks and the strings of duck giblets, and so with the shops that sold geese and pheasant and every kind of fowl.
Remembering how Gobby had silenced him earlier, Per kicked Fowl on along the path--but Gobby was his uncle.