fowler

From Middle English foulere, fouler, from Old English fuglere (“fowler”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuglārī, equivalent to fowl +‎ -er. Doublet of veuglaire.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaʊlə(ɹ)/

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• Homophones: fouler, Fowler

fowler (plural fowlers)

1. A hunter of wildfowl.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 124:7:

     Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped

   • 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:

     Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]

• → Irish: foghlaeir

• Flower, Wolfer, flower, flowre, reflow, wolfer

fowler

1. (Late Middle English) alternative form of foulere