yard-fowl

plural yard-fowls

1. alternativeAlternative form of yardfowl.

   It alſo feeds Pheaſants, Partridges, Pidgeons, Yard-Fowls, &c., very expeditiously.

   1744 July, William Ellis, “Of French or Buck Wheat”, in The Modern Husbandman, or The Practice of Farming, volume III, London: Printed for, and sold by, T[homas] Osborne, […], and M. Cooper, […], →OCLC, page 54

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   All Caribbean politicians have a network of supporters and informants, popularly known as ‘yard-fowls’. The VSN [Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale, or Tonton Macoute] were the yard-fowl armed.

   1985, Graham Walker, editor, The World Today, London: Royal Institute of International Affairs; Oxford University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 107, column 1