fowl-lore

alternative fowllore · alternative fowl lore

1. uncountablearchaic or puristicThe knowledge, study, or science of fowls; birdlore.

   The chapters end with scraps of descriptive ornithology which we gladly skip to revel in the folk-lore and the fowl-lore, the laughable records of marshland superstition, the scorn for sham naturalists, […]

   1896, The Speaker, volume 13, page 453

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   Member of the Danish Rigsdag, the king's sheriff in Faroe, a man of the simplest manners and most varied knowledge and intelligence, great in whalelore and fowllore, strong in deep-sea fishing, a great gatherer of strange over-sea waifs, […]

   1864, The North British review, page 300

   To the last he planted his own spuds, but did it his own way— planting them in a trench marked with high poles on each end and digging them out one by one as needed .... Acknowledged as a seer on fish, game, and fowl lore, […]

   1984, Philip McM. Pittman, Adele S. Pittman, The Les Cheneaux chronicles