fowler
nounattested in dialogue
- //ˈfaʊlə(ɹ)//
A hunter of wildfowl.
noun
- 1
A hunter of wildfowl.
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped
Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]
Etymology
From Middle English foulere, fouler, from Old English fuglere (“fowler”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuglārī, equivalent to fowl + -er. Doublet of veuglaire.
Forms
- plural
- fowlers