fowl-lore

noun

Etymology

From fowl + lore.

  1. inherited from *laizō
  2. inherited from *laiʀu
  3. inherited from lār
  4. inherited from lore
  5. compounded as fowl-lore — “fowl + lore

Definitions

  1. The knowledge, study, or science of fowls

    The 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, […]
    • 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, […]

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for fowl-lore. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA