fowler
A hunter of wildfowl.
Noun
- A hunter of wildfowl.
- Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 124:7:
- 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; […] - 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A...
Origin
From Middle English foulere, fouler, from Old English fuglere (“fowler”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuglārī, equivalent to fowl + -er. Doublet of veuglaire.