| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  foul |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. fowl or fowls
1. Any of various birds of the order Galliformes, especially the common, widely domesticated chicken (Gallus gallus). 2a. A bird, such as the duck, goose, turkey, or pheasant, that is used as food or hunted as game. b. The flesh of such birds used as food. 3. A bird of any kind. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: fowled, fowl·ing, fowls
To hunt, trap, or shoot wildfowl. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English foul, from Old English fugol. See pleu- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | fowl er —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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