Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈwaɪldfaʊl/
wildfowl (plural wildfowls)
- Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans.
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task: A Poem in Six Books, London: J. Johnson, Book 4, p. 168,
- […] Whoso seeks an audit here
- Propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish,
- Wildfowl or ven’son, and his errand speeds.
- 1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, London: Secker & Wartburg, Chapter 3, p. 81,
- In these early days of the journey we eat well. We have brought salted meat, flour, beans, dried fruit, and there are wildfowl to shoot.
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task: A Poem in Six Books, London: J. Johnson, Book 4, p. 168,
- Waterfowl.
wildfowl (wildfowls, present participle wildfowling; past and past participle wildfowled)
- To hunt wildfowl.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 220b.
- The hunting of the kind of winged creatures, taken as a whole, is called wildfowling.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 220b.
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