fowl

«fowl» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: bird — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

bird

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

any bird, including wild birds and flying creatures. tree →

how it differs from today

Today fowl usually means a farm bird such as a chicken or duck; here it means any bird of the air.

examples

• And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. (Torah LEV.7.26, JPS 1917) tree →
• I should like to have that fowl. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven, (Torah DEU.4.17, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

fowl

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 79 (Torah 25, tales 54, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 8.9 (Torah alone 58.3); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
• the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,
• And they hear not the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled, and gone.
• Upon his carcass all the fowls of the heaven do dwell, and upon his branches are all the beasts of the field;
• The priests shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself, or is torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fowl» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.