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Definition of Fowling
1. the hunting of birds [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fowling
Literary usage of Fowling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1841)
"DEAR UNCLE, THIS, I hope, will find you and your conjugal yoke-fellow in your
good old way ; I am impatient to know if the Ailsa fowling be commenced for ..."
2. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1837)
"fowling. fowling was a favourite amusement of all classes; and the fowlers and
fishermen, as I have already observed, were subdivisions of one of the castes ..."
3. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the by P. L. Jacob (1876)
"fowling. Y the general term hunting is included the three distinct branches of
an art, or it may be called a science, which dates its origin from the ..."
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