wildfowl
noun
a game bird, especially a wild duck, goose, or swan.
wildfowling
-
a word derived from
wildfowl.
Example Sentences
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He also wanted to put a stop to the baiting of wildfowling grounds, the use of live birds as decoys.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Eventual elimination of wildfowling as a field sport in America is not an impossibility."
From Time Magazine Archive
His book contains reproductions of 51 of his oil paintings, 16 of them in color, and a youthful gunning testament drawn largely from "my wildfowling diary."
From Time Magazine Archive
Weighing against all this arithmetic is the fact that U. S. wildfowling as now organized constitutes an industry which supports tens of thousands of human families.
From Time Magazine Archive
"By wildfowling and fishing, though I'm told they snare rabbits and poach pheasants."
From Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss
