fowl

fowl

  1. kanalintu

  2. siipikarja

  3. riistalintu

Esimerkkejä fowl sanan käytöstä:

And smale fowles maken melodye
That slepen all the night with open [[ye]] - Chaucer, General Prologue, Canterbury Tales, ll.9-10

Synonyymisanakirja

fowl

  1. kanalintu, siipikarja, Dorking, Plymouth Rock, Cornish, Cornish-kana, Kukko, suku Kukot.

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Käännökset

englanti

siipikarja, kanalintu

linnustaa

riistalintu puhekieltä A bird.
1460-1500, The Towneley Playsː

I see that it is good; now make we man to our likeness, that shall be keeper of mere & leas(ow), of fowls and fish in flood.
(RQ:Mlry MrtDrthr):
And now I take vpon me the aduentures of holy thynges / & now I see and vnderstande that myn old synne hyndereth me and shameth me / so that I had no power to stere nor speke whan the holy blood appiered afore me / So thus he sorowed til hit was day / & herd the fowles synge / thenne somwhat he was comforted
A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, goose geese and swans.
To hunt fowl.

We took our guns and went fowling.

(obsolete) foul
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view / Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause / Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State / Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off / From their Creator, and transgress his Will / For one restraint, Lords of the World besides? / Who first seduc'd them to that fowl revolt?
a bird

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