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fowle

fowle is the obsolete spelling of fowl.

Meaning of fowl

Noun

fowl (plural fowl or fowls)

  1. (archaic) Any bird.
    • And now I take vpon me the aduentures of holy thynges / & now I see and vnderstande that myn old synne hyndereth me and shameth me / so that I had no power to stere nor speke whan the holy blood appiered afore me / So thus he sorowed til hit was day / & herd the fowles synge / thenne somwhat he was...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XIX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII
  2. A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.

See all 5 meanings of fowl

Proper noun capitalized: Fowle

Fowle (plural Fowles)

  1. A surname.

Forms of fowle

Noun
pluralfowles
Proper noun
pluralFowles

Questions about fowle

What does fowle mean?
Fowle means a surname.
What is fowle the obsolete spelling of?
Fowle is the obsolete spelling of fowl.
What part of speech is fowle?
Fowle is a proper noun.

Words near fowle in the dictionary

  1. fowl-houses
  2. fowl-like
  3. fowl-lore
  4. fowl-run
  5. fowl-runs
  6. fowle
  7. fowled
  8. fowler
  9. Fowler dead space
  10. Fowler flap
  11. Fowler flaps

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