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Fowling Piece

Definition: Fowling Piece

Fowling Piece

Noun

1. A light shotgun used for fowling.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms within Context: Fowling Piece

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Arms

Small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron , six-shooter, shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, KalashnikoVerb:

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Fowling Piece

English words defined with "fowling piece": Birding piece. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fowling Piece

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fowling piece

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Fowling Piece

Language Translations for "fowling piece"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

çifte e lehtë për shpendë. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ловджийска пушка (scatter-gun, shotgun). (various references)

   

Czech

  

lehká puška na ptáky. (various references)

   

German

  

Vogelflinte. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όπλο κυνηγιού. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vadászpuska (fowling-piece, shotgun, shot-gun). (various references)

   

Manx

  

gunney eeanlee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owlingfay iecepay

   

Romanian

  

puşcã uşoarã de vânãtoare. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

охотничье ружье (fowling-piece, shotgun, sporting gun). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

isneach (a rifle gun, gun), cuilbhear (culverin, musket). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

lovačka puška. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fågelbössa, jäktgevär. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

av tüfeği (shotgun). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fowling Piece

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-g-i-i-l-n-o-p-w"

-4 letters: epigenic, epigonic, fleecing, olefinic, picoline, policing.

-5 letters: ceiling, cineole, cipolin, cleping, clewing, coifing, coiling, cowling, eloping, epigeic, epigone, epigoni, feeling, fleeing, flowing, foiling, fowling, olefine, peeling, penicil, picolin, piecing, pignoli, pinocle, plowing, weeping, wolfing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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