fowl

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of various birds of the order Galliformes, especially the common, widely domesticated chicken (Gallus gallus).
2. n. A bird, such as the duck, goose, turkey, or pheasant, that is used as food or hunted as game.
3. n. The flesh of such birds used as food.
4. n. A bird of any kind.
5. v. To hunt, trap, or shoot wildfowl.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A bird: generally unchanged in the plural when used in a collective or generic sense.
2. n. Specifically A barn-yard cock or hen; also, a domestic duck or turkey; in the plural, poultry. [This is now the usual meaning of the word when used without qualification, bird being the general term for a feathered biped.]
3. n. See the qualifying words.
4. To catch or kill wild fowl as game or for food, as by means of decoys, nets, or snares, by pursuing them with falcons or hawks, or by shooting.
5. To hunt wild fowl over or in; catch or kill wild fowl in.
6. An obsolete variant of foul.

Wiktionary

1. n. archaic A bird.
2. n. A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
3. n. Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans.
4. v. To hunt fowl.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.
2. n. Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).
3. v. To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
2. v. hunt fowl
3. n. the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
4. v. hunt fowl in the forest