fowl

Template:OE. fugol, from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Swedish fågel. Probably related ultimately to fly.

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  Homophones: foul

  Rhymes: -aʊl

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fowl (plural fowls)

1. Template:archaic A bird.

And smale fowles maken melodye
That slepen all the night with open ye - Chaucer, General Prologue, Canterbury Tales, ll.9-10

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

fowl (third-person singular simple present fowls, present participle fowling, simple past and past participle fowled)

1. To hunt fowl.