Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of catching birds or wild fowls, either for food or pleasure, or for their destruction when pernicious to the husbandman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
trapping ofbirds .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When Papageno appears, wearing his feather-covered birdcatching suit, each concludes that the other must be the devil, and they bolt in terror.
Zauberflöte 2005 2005
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Being somewhat afraid that this description would not meet all the practical requirements of the case, and knowing myself but little or nothing of this mode of birdcatching, I thought it advisable to interview a practical man.
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(through the medium of a tip) to impart his stock of birdcatching lore, and to cut me patterns of play-sticks and pegs, and also to correct my rough sketches when necessary.
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_lowbell_, for a mode of birdcatching by night, by which the birds, being awakened by the bell, are lured by the light into nets held by the fowlers.
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