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fowling, vbl. n.|ˈfaʊlɪŋ|
[f. fowl v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. fowl; the art or practice of hunting, shooting, or snaring wild fowl.
1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxxvii. §84 Alle suche labourers that trauaylen..in fysshyng and fowlynge. 1555Eden Decades 83 Owre Spanyardes..are ignorant in foulynge. 1663Pepys Diary (1875) II. 210 His birding-piece going off, as he was a-fowling. 1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 62 Launch'd the Yawl to go a fowling; shot several Geese, Ducks..and Sea-pies. 1879Dixon Windsor I. iv. 38 Exercise in riding and fowling had kept him spare.
2. attrib. and Comb., as fowling-cutter, fowling-gun, fowling-net, fowling-pole.
1882Sir R. Payne-Gallwey Fowler in Ireland v, A *fowling-cutter on the bleak coast of a wide estuary.
1647Archives of Maryland IV. 323 Tho. Greene..demandeth of Richard Span a *fowling Gunne. 1847Knickerbocker XXX. 239 Reader, in your younger days you have, no doubt, left your fowling gun slyly hid in a fence corner.
1530J. Hall in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 114 Xij hangyng and *fowlyng netts.
1810G. Landt Descr. Feroe Islands 241 They are caught with the *fowling-pole and net. |