noun. Any of various birds of the order Galliformes, especially the common, widely domesticated chicken (Gallus domesticus).

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noun. A bird, such as a duck, goose, turkey, or pheasant, that is used as food or hunted as game.

noun. The flesh of such birds used as food.

noun. A bird of any kind.

intransitive verb. To hunt, trap, or shoot wildfowl.

noun. A bird: generally unchanged in the plural when used in a collective or generic sense.

noun. Specifically A barn-yard cock or hen; also, a domestic duck or turkey; in the plural, poultry.

noun. See the qualifying words.

To catch or kill wild fowl as game or for food, as by means of decoys, nets, or snares, by pursuing them with falcons or hawks, or by shooting.

To hunt wild fowl over or in; catch or kill wild fowl in.

An obsolete variant of foul.

intransitive verb. To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.

intransitive verb. a light gun with smooth bore, adapted for the use of small shot in killing birds or small quadrupeds.

noun. Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.

noun. Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).

noun. a fowl that frequents the barnyard; the common domestic cock or hen.

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noun. A bird.

noun. A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.

noun. Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans.

verb. To hunt fowl.

noun. a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl

verb. hunt fowl

noun. the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food

verb. hunt fowl in the forest

"This fowl is a native of Japan, and it certainly has a very singular appearance, from its feathers being curled up and apparently all turned the wrong way."