Fowl vs Howl - What's the difference?
fowl | howl |
(archaic) A bird.
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A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans.
The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
* Bible, Isaiah xiii. 6
To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
* Sir Walter Scott
To utter with outcry.
As nouns the difference between fowl and howl
is that fowl is a bird while howl is the protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.As verbs the difference between fowl and howl
is that fowl is to hunt fowl while howl is to utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.fowl
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(wikipedia fowl) (en-noun)- And now I take vpon me the aduentures of holy thynges / & now I see and vnderstande that myn old synne hyndereth me and shameth me / so that I had no power to stere nor speke whan the holy blood appiered afore me / So thus he sorowed til hit was day / & herd the fowles synge / thenne somwhat he was comforted
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howl
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(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- And dogs in corners set them down to howl .
- Methought a legion of foul fiends / Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears.
- Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand.
- Wild howled the wind.
- to howl derision