Fowl are birds raised by people for food. They include chickens, ducks, and turkeys. People keep fowl for meat and eggs.
The farm has many fowl in the yard.
We eat fowl like chicken for dinner.
Fowl also means wild birds people hunt for food or sport. These birds live in forests or fields. They are called game birds.
Hunters look for fowl in the forest.
Many fowl fly in the sky at dawn.
In older English, fowl can mean any kind of bird. This use is more formal or old-fashioned today. It means birds in general.
The sky was full of fowl flying high.
Fowl can live near water or land.
As a verb, to fowl means to hunt or catch wild birds. This is an old or literary word not used much today.
They fowl the riverbanks for ducks.
In old times, people fowled in wet areas.
Fowl can mean bird droppings or manure used on farms. It helps plants grow well. Farmers collect fowl for fertilizing soil.
Farmers use fowl as natural fertilizer.
The garden grows well with fowl added.
'Fowl play' is a joke phrase people use instead of 'foul play.' It means cheating or bad actions, but the phrase is playful or mistaken.
There is no fowl play in the game.
He denied any fowl play happened here.
