Fowl-lore
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fowl-lore is a noun meaning (archaic or puristic) The knowledge, study, or science of fowls; birdlore.
Meaning
(archaic or puristic) The knowledge, study, or science of fowls; birdlore.
Example Sentences
The chapters end with scraps of descriptive ornithology which we gladly skip to revel in the folk-lore and the fowl-lore, the laughable records of marshland superstition, the scorn for sham naturalists, […]
To the last he planted his own spuds, but did it his own way— planting them in a trench marked with high poles on each end and digging them out one by one as needed .... Acknowledged as a seer on fish, game, and fowl lore, […]
Member of the Danish Rigsdag, the king's sheriff in Faroe, a man of the simplest manners and most varied knowledge and intelligence, great in whalelore and fowllore, strong in deep-sea fishing, a great gatherer of strange over-sea waifs, […]
Word Forms
- fowllore
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fowlery, fowle, fowlkind, fowling, folk-lore, flocker.
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