Noun: fowler
| Singular | fowler |
| Plural | fowlers |
Sample Sentences
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Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 124:7:]
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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; […] [1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:]
Nouns inflected like fowler
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English foulere, fouler, from Old English fuglere (“fowler”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuglārī, equivalent to fowl + -er. Doublet of veuglaire. See: Middle English Nouns '
foulere', Old English Nouns '
fuglere'.
Verbs referencing "fowler"
Irish Nouns
foghlaeir.