fowler
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See also: Fowler
English
Etymology
From Middle English foulere, voȝelere, fuwelare, fugelere, from Old English fuglere (“fowler”), equivalent to fowl + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
fowler (plural fowlers)
- A hunter of wildfowl.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Psalms 124:7:
- Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped
- 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. , London: Jos Hindmarsh , →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:
- Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]
Related terms
Descendants
- → Irish: foghlaeir
Translations
a hunter of wildfowl
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