fowl

About 1.81 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any bird.
2. noun A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.
3. verb To hunt fowl.

   We took our guns and went fowling.

4. verb To use or traverse in pursuit of fowls.
5. adjective foul

Similar words

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Often followed by

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Word family

fowled fowler fowlers fowling fowls