wildfowl

plural wildfowls

1. Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans.

   Near-synonyms: gamefowl, game bird

   2 more examples

   […] Whoso seeks an audit here Propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish, Wildfowl or ven’son, and his errand speeds.

   1785, William Cowper, The Task: A Poem in Six Books, London: J. Johnson, Book 4, p. 168

   In these early days of the journey we eat well. We have brought salted meat, flour, beans, dried fruit, and there are wildfowl to shoot.

   1980, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Waiting for the Barbarians, London: Secker & Wartburg, page 81

   Synonyms: gamefowl, game bird

present singular third person wildfowls · participle present wildfowling · participle past wildfowled · past wildfowled

1. To hunt wildfowl.

   The hunting of the kind of winged creatures, taken as a whole, is called wildfowling.

   2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 220b