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- noun A
hunter ofwildfowl .
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Examples
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Now I should like to ask you, Mr. Evringham, "added Mr.. Forbes in an access of outraged virtue," which of us three do you think she called the fowler? "
Jewel Clara Louise Burnham 1890
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The silly birds may be charmed with the pipe of the fowler, which is but a tube of reeds.
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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That believers shall be kept from those mischiefs which they are in imminent danger of, and which would be fatal to them (v. 3), from the snare of the fowler, which is laid unseen and catches the unwary prey on a sudden, and from the noisome pestilence, which seizes men unawares and against which there is no guard.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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And fo much the fowler is their fluggiilinelTe, which take
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All beds are "fowler" beds and they all have ... folder?
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Fowling was an important occupation in Egypt, and would appear in early days to have been reserved for women, seeing that the word "fowler" is always used in the feminine.
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"They're kind of the big leagues of duck hunting; any water fowler knows the 'Duck Commander' series," LaRoche agreed.
Adam LaRoche is a Buck Commander Dan Steinberg 2011
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Five Places to Get Free Books myFiveBest Opinions: World War 2 Historic Films amy wallace, book of lists, david wallechinsky, guinness book of records, herbert hoover, irving wallace, james p. fowler sr.,
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Oh, he was doubtless a “gentleman” and all that, but for the first time in my life I saw what a snare the fowler was spreading at the feet of the daughters of my people, baited by church and state.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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If you want to learn follow-through - use a flintlock fowler where focus & follow-through are absolutely essential, if you are to hit a moving target.
Focus-Through 2008
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e.g. Pagageno, in "The Magic Flute"
July 15, 2008