1. fowl - Noun
2. fowl - Adjective
3. fowl - Verb
Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.
Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).
To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico. Malcolm Lowry
I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. William Cowper
Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!" Diogenes of Sinope
The fowl digs out the blade that kills it. Somali Proverb
A fowl does not forget where it lays it eggs. Nigerian Proverb
The hungry fowl wakes early. Jamaican Proverb