The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. A light gun with smooth bore, adapted for the use of small shot in killing birds or small animals.
WordNet
n. a light shotgun used for fowling
Usage examples of "fowling piece".
Three cutlasses of the four I'd brought along, and a fowling piece which I charged with shot as soon as I'd come back to the light of the sail locker.
In truth, three of them I have, a halberd as well, a brace of pistols and a fowling piece.
They began to look about for the weapon with which the deed had been accomplished, and in a moment found ita fowling piece lying in two dogwood forks against the wall.
Each carried a bell-muzzled fowling piece at a jaunty angle over one arm, a spyglass in a leather case over the left shoulder.
Each carried a bell-muzzled fowling piece at a jaunty angle over one arm, a spyglass hi a leather case over the left shoulder.