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fowling

/ˈfaʊlɪŋ/

fowling is the present participle and gerund of fowl.

Meaning of fowl

Verb

fowl (third-person singular simple present fowls, present participle fowling, simple past and past participle fowled)

  1. (intransitive) To hunt fowl.
    • We took our guns and went fowling.
  2. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of fowls.
    • They hunt all grounds; and dravv all ſeas;
      Foule euery brooke, and buſh; to pleaſe
      Their vvanton taſts:[…]1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, Act I, signature D, recto

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Noun

fowling (plural fowlings)

  1. A session of hunting fowl.

Forms of fowling

pluralfowlings

Words formed from fowling

Phrases with fowling

Words that rhyme with fowling

Questions about fowling

What does fowling mean?
Fowling means a session of hunting fowl.
What is fowling the present participle and gerund of?
Fowling is the present participle and gerund of fowl.
What part of speech is fowling?
Fowling is a noun.
How do you pronounce fowling?
Fowling is pronounced /ˈfaʊlɪŋ/.
What is the plural of fowling?
The plural of fowling is fowlings.

Words near fowling in the dictionary

  1. fowlest
  2. fowlhouse
  3. fowlhouses
  4. fowlicidin
  5. fowlicidins
  6. fowling
  7. fowling piece
  8. fowling pieces
  9. fowlings
  10. fowlish
  11. fowlkind

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fowling (page history and authors); fowl (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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