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plural fowl or fowls
(archaic) A bird. quotations
And now I take vpon me the aduentures of holy thynges / & now I see and vnderstande that myn old synne hyndereth me and shameth me / so that I had no power to stere nor speke whan the holy blood appiered afore me / So thus he sorowed til hit was day / & herd the fowles synge / thenne somwhat he was comforted(please add an English translation of this quotation)
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XIX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII
A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail. examples
Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans, together forming the clade Galloanserae. examples
third-person singular simple present fowls, present participle fowling, simple past and past participle fowled
To hunt fowl. examples
comparative fowler, superlative fowlest
(obsolete) foul quotations
Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view / Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause / Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State / Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off / From their Creator, and transgress his Will / For one restraint, Lords of the World besides? / Who first seduc'd them to that fowl revolt?
Paradise Lost, John Milton