Definitions for fowls

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fowls fowl

Spelling: [foul]

IPA: /faʊl/

Fowls is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in fowls (flosw).

Definitions for fowls

noun

1. the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken. Compare domestic fowl.
2. any of several other, usually gallinaceous, birds that are barnyard, domesticated, or wild, as the duck, turkey, or pheasant.
3. (in market and household use) a full-grown domestic fowl for food purposes, as distinguished from a chicken or young fowl.
4. the flesh or meat of a domestic fowl.
5. any bird (used chiefly in combination):

verb (used without object)

1. to hunt or take wildfowl.

Origin of fowls

before 900; Middle English foul, Old English fugol, fugel; cognate with Old Saxon fugal, Gothic fugls, Old High German fogal (German Vogel)

Examples for fowls

Fill the fowl with the stuffing, placing in the yolks and truffles.

Even the fowl at Horn o' the Moon are not of the ordinary sort.

The basket contained a fowl and some eggs which she had just bought at a great price.

Like all fowl, turkeys tend to go quiet when held upside down.

It is a multimillion-dollar business in which roughly 15 million fowl die a year.

Both include oysters, crawfish, crab, shrimp, and fish from the Gulf of Mexico, and pork, fowl, and beef.

Breast of veal boned may be used instead of a fowl to make a galantine.

After the fowl is picked, the plugs of the feathers pulled out, and the hairs carefully singed, let it be well washed and dried.

Pass through a sieve and use for masking meat, fowl, fish, &c.

At times she was even able to carry off a rabbit or a fowl given her by Desiree.