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Definition of Batfowl
1. Verb. Catch birds by temporarily blinding them.
Definition of Batfowl
1. to catch birds at night [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Batfowl
Literary usage of Batfowl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes by John Bellender Ker (1837)
"And is not our to batfowl, in the sense of to catch [ensnare] birds by beating
the bushes, and so to disturb them in order to profit by so doing, ..."
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