Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The birds of the duck tribe collectively considered; the Anatidæ; water-fowl: sometimes extended to other birds ordinarily pursued as game.
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Examples
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From afar came the faint cries of myriads of wild-fowl on the nesting-grounds.
The Wit of Porportuk 2010
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A stray wild-fowl honked somewhere to seaward, and the surf broke limply and hollowly on the sand.
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A stray wild-fowl honked somewhere to seaward, and the surf broke limply and hollowly on the sand.
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A wedge of wild-fowl honked low overhead and at sight of the encampment veered swiftly to the north into the smouldering sun.
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The story ends in one of London's magnificently evocative passages: A stray wild-fowl honked somewhere to seaward, and the surf broke limply and hollowly on the sand.
“And must I. . .who am weary, travel always your trail until I die?” 2008
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The females withdrew, or rather hurried from the tent, rank and ceremony forgotten, much like a flock of wild-fowl huddled together, against whom the falcon has made a recent stoop.
The Talisman 2008
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In rural Anhui province last year, a group of wealthy businessmen, gun-club owners and former army officers organized wild-fowl shoots.
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“Weel, weel, Mr. Bide-the-Bent, can a man do mair than stand reproved?” said the cooper; “but jest let me ask the women what for they hae dished the wild-fowl before we came.”
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YE gied the wild-fowl, the best end of our christening dinner, to a friend of yours, ye auld rudas!
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Kindness and pleasure are the only means to capture this fearful wild-fowl man and keep him constant.
Memorabilia 2007
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