fowl

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of various birds of the order Galliformes, especially the common, widely domesticated chicken (Gallus domesticus).
• noun A bird, such as a duck, goose, turkey, or pheasant, that is used as food or hunted as game.
• noun The flesh of such birds used as food.
• noun A bird of any kind.
• intransitive verb To hunt, trap, or shoot wildfowl.

from The Century Dictionary.

• An obsolete variant of foul.
• noun A bird: generally unchanged in the plural when used in a collective or generic sense.
• noun Specifically A barn-yard cock or hen; also, a domestic duck or turkey; in the plural, poultry.
• noun See the qualifying words.
• To catch or kill wild fowl as game or for food, as by means of decoys, nets, or snares, by pursuing them with falcons or hawks, or by shooting.
• To hunt wild fowl over or in; catch or kill wild fowl in.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.
• noun Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).
• noun a fowl that frequents the barnyard; the common domestic cock or hen.
• intransitive verb To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.
• intransitive verb a light gun with smooth bore, adapted for the use of small shot in killing birds or small quadrupeds.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun archaic A bird.
• noun A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
• noun Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans.
• verb To hunt fowl.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
• verb hunt fowl
• noun the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
• verb hunt fowl in the forest