Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice or sport of shooting or snaring birds.
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- verb Present participle of
fowl .
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Examples
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He'd brought a German shotgun with silver trimmings with him, which he called a fowling piece, and he wanted to hunt in his few leisure moments; so the boys told him all the kinds of game that run wild on the place.
Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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The takeaway here: If you set your decoys right and hide well, waterfowling is a close-range sport.
Why You Miss Ducks (And Other Insights From Our Waterfowl Guide Survey) 2009
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Birds, on the contrary, are not hunted, but shot in the air, or taken with nets and other devices, which is called fowling; or they are pursued and taken by birds of prey, which is called hawking, a species of sport now fallen almost entirely into desuetude in
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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Birds, on the contrary, are not hunted, but shot in the air, or taken with nets and other devices, which is called fowling; or they are pursued and taken by birds of prey, which is called hawking, a species of sport now fallen almost entirely into desuetude in
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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These pursuits were denounced by the Puritans and their descendants as a sinful waste of time, and there is a letter extant from one of the early Massachusetts governors, in which he reproaches himself for indulging in "fowling," the rather because, as he confesses, he failed to get any game.
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Michigan afforded a rich field for "fowling" and fishing, and its forests were plentifully supplied with various kinds of game.
The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock Ferdinand Brock Tupper 1834
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I joined the throngs and filed through the labyrinthine chambers and catacombs, past storyboards of a hippopotamus hunt, fowling in the marshes, dwarfs making jewelry, scenes of fishing, gardening, and farming, an ancient catalogue of harmonic balance that reverses the telescope from today's hardships and irredentism.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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However, it had clumped a little in the horn and left so much fowling in the barrel I had to wipe the bore after every shot just to ram the next patch/ball down.
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However, it had clumped a little in the horn and left so much fowling in the barrel I had to wipe the bore after every shot just to ram the next patch/ball down.
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I joined the throngs and filed through the labyrinthine chambers and catacombs, past storyboards of a hippopotamus hunt, fowling in the marshes, dwarfs making jewelry, scenes of fishing, gardening, and farming, an ancient catalogue of harmonic balance that reverses the telescope from today's hardships and irredentism.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
scarequotes commented on the word fowling
http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2015/0721/A-strike-or-a-bonk-Football-plus-bowling-creates-Fowling-in-Michigan
Chris Hutt owns the Fowling Warehouse, a 34,000-square-foot repurposed industrial site in Hamtramck that's devoted to a football/bowling hybrid sport — fowling — he and some buddies invented while tailgating years ago at the Indianapolis 500.
August 31, 2015
ruzuzu commented on the word fowling
Ha!
August 31, 2015
ruzuzu commented on the word fowling
Pronounced like foaling, no doubt.
August 31, 2015
bilby commented on the word fowling
Sone ideas should have stayed at the tailgating.
August 31, 2015