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Definitions for Fowling

[1] the practice or sport of shooting or snaring birds.
[2] the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken. Compare domestic fowl.
[3] any of several other, usually gallinaceous, birds that are barnyard, domesticated, or wild, as the duck, turkey, or pheasant.
[4] (in market and household use) a full-grown domestic fowl for food purposes, as distinguished from a chicken or young fowl.
[5] the flesh or meat of a domestic fowl.
[6] any bird (used chiefly in combination): waterfowl; wildfowl.
[7] to hunt or take wildfowl.
[8] the shooting or trapping of birds for sport or as a livelihood
[9] See domestic fowl
[10] any other bird, esp any gallinaceous bird, that is used as food or hunted as game See also waterfowl, wildfowl
[11] the flesh or meat of fowl, esp of chicken
[12] an archaic word for any bird
[13] (intr) to hunt or snare wildfowl

Words related to Fowling

shooting, fishery, angling, fishing, sporting, trapping, stalking, coursing, hawking, falconry, venery

Words nearby Fowling

fowler flap, fowler's position, fowler's toad, fowles, fowliang, fowling, fowling piece, fox, fox bolt, fox brush, fox grape

Origin of Fowling

before 900; Middle English foul, Old English fugol, fugel; cognate with Old Saxon fugal, Gothic fugls, Old High German fogal (German Vogel )

Words that may be confused with Fowling

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, fowlfoul, fowl

Word origin for Fowling

Old English fugol ; related to Old Frisian fugel , Old Norse fogl , Gothic fugls , Old High German fogal

Synonyms for Fowling

angling, fishery, fishing, shooting, coursing, falconry, hawking, sporting, stalking, trapping, big-game hunting, halieutics, the hunt, venatics, venery