Fowling piece, a light gun with smooth bore, adapted for the use of small shot in killing birds or small quadrupeds.
Defn: A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net.
Defn: The line by which a fowling net was pulled over so as to inclose the birds.
Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms.
Several of the children had gone fowling for the taskmaster's meal, and were so long absent that I was sent to look for them.
I am but a small sportsman, yet with a fowling piece have killed above twenty of them at a shot.
They repeat their offerings as frequently as they have great successes in their wars, or their fishing, fowling or hunting.
Their fowling is answerable to their fishing for plenty of game in its proper season.
These reverend gentlemen are not so entirely given up to their religious austerities, but they sometimes take their pleasure (as well as the laity) in fishing, fowling and hunting.
The big room was fitted with reclining chairs and couches and low tables; its walls were hung with the heads of deer and boar and wolves, and with racks holding rifles and hunting pistols and fowling pieces.
He secured a large game bag from under a rack offowling pieces, and held it while she sorted the material rapidly, stuffing spools of record tape and notebooks into it.
He wondered, for a split second, if it might be one of the fowling pieces he had seen there, and then something whizzed past his head and exploded with a soft plop behind him.
Then a couple more of them were coming up, with fowling pieces; I shot one of them before they could fire, and jumped into the descent tube and came down heels over ears.
But they are always fowling as they advance, and the most part of the quarry taken is carried to the Emperor.
We carid a present to the Prince Wacange Samme:-- 1 fowling peece.
I paid unto one of the smiths of the Moone, a Staffordshire man, for a fowling peece, fyve Rialles of eight in Spanish plate, is xxs.
Our means of defence were scanty; a few fowlingguns being the only weapons we had on board our vessels.
Here are guns of every description--from the old-fashioned fowling piece and matchlock to the ponderous duck-gun.
The decoy-man surrounds his craft with as much mystery as the old fish poacher his preparation of salmon roe, and fowling secrets are often kept in families for generations.
This kind of fowling was mainly practised on flight ponds near the coast, especially in the south-eastern counties.
The arts ofFowling and Fishing are usually added to the more modern treatises upon hunting and hawking.
A bold people they were, and hardy and dexterous withal, for their lives were spent in hazardous fowling and fishing, and in toiling over measureless waters and quagmires.
For this liberty of fishing and fowling they paid yearly to the Lord Abbat a very round sum of money: and, we ween, the abbat and the monks had ever the choice of the best fowls and fishes they caught.
The seabirds are harvested by man, formerly by fowling (capturing and shooting), now primarily by shooting.
There are few, if any, countries in the world in which wild-fowling and other exploitations of birdlife have played such a major role as in the Faroes.
This large harvest of birds, taken by fowling year after year for centuries, did not appear to influence the seabird populations, as bird numbers remained stable.
The legal right of fowling on a "fowling cliff" belongs to the registered owner of the land on which the cliff is situated.
Number of seabirds caught by fowling each year in the Faroe Islands in the early 1900's.
The main thing, however, was that food obtained from fowling meant life and death for local inhabitants and so was undertaken in such a well-balanced way that the seabird populations did not decrease or disappear.
Bird-fowling at great heights on precipitous sea-cliffs was a dangerous venture, and each year lives were lost.
Some fowling still takes place, but on a reduced scale, since most men are now engaged in the fishery during the summer.
Hunting and fowling are hereby absolutely forbidden to persons in this state, though they are allowed to kill certain kinds of noxious animals.
But they are always fowlingas they advance, and the greater part of the quarry taken is carried to the Emperor.
I have also caught them in a bat fowlingnet at night out of thick hedges.
For an ancient but interesting account of rockfowling in the Orkneys, see Pennant's "Arctic Zoology," page 29.
Those from shore reported that one of the Planters, being out fowling and hidden in the reeds, about a mile and a half from the settlement, saw twelve Indians marching toward the plantation and heard many more.
While the wretch was making this appeal, Browne was silently engaged in emptying the priming of his flintlock fowling piece, picking open the tube, and then filling the pan with fresh powder from the horn at his side.
We'll carry the fowling piece: there'll be ducks on the water.
The boy followed, and then the master took his seat in the stern, with his flintlock fowling piece within reach.
Of all the dirty work that wild-fowling in its many forms necessitates, this flamingo-driving takes the palm.
In these situations, we frequently fell in with them while fowling with the cabrestos.
As regards the second part, which treats of wild-fowling with the stancheon-gun, we can only say that nothing like it has appeared since the publication of Colonel Hawker's classic work.
A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
The line by which a fowlingnet was pulled over so as to inclose the birds.
I shall not want you this morning, Jethro; so you can either stay here with Amuba or do some fishing or fowling on the lake.
His fowling piece had burst in his hand, and flown away in fragments, leaving only a small portion of the barrel at my feet.
Arriving within two hundred yards of the palisade, they discharged their fowling pieces by way of compliment to the Governor, who returned the salute by firing off two or three small cannon.
As at the present time, the object of bird-fowling was twofold, namely, to procure game for food and to capture birds to be kept either for their voice or for fancy as pets.
It is satisfactory to observe that at that period measures were taken to preserve nests and to prevent bird-fowling from the 15th of March to the 15th of August.
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