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fowler

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈfaʊlə(ɹ)//

A hunter of wildfowl.

noun

  1. 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
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).