noun. The practice or sport of shooting or snaring birds.

verb. Present participle of fowl.

"He'd brought a German shotgun with silver trimmings with him, which he called a fowling piece, and he wanted to hunt in his few leisure moments; so the boys told him all the kinds of game that run wild on the place."

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