Fowling definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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They spent a lot of good time thinking up things for him 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 There was the cross-feathered snee, I remember, which was said by the bird books to be really the same as the sidehill mooney.

—Ma Pettengill

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The practice or sport of shooting or snaring birds.

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Jem is a true jolly fellow; his house exhibits a fine picture of what a sportsman's hall should be, decorated with all the emblems of fishing, fowling, and hunting, disposed around in great taste 33 Barney Groves, the haughward, or impounder of stray cattle at Eton, is one of the most singular characters I have ever met with. — The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
Fishing and fowling were then the arts of more luxurious nations 13. — The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper
A pretty problem: the fowling was like to be delicate. — A Christmas Garland
The doctors have taken him in hand King_: He was more for fowling, and I was more for horses--before I increased so much in girth. — Three Wonder Plays
They spent a lot of good time thinking up things for him 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 There was the cross-feathered snee, I remember, which was said by the bird books to be really the same as the sidehill mooney. — Ma Pettengill