FOWLER

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• FOWLER (noun)
  The noun FOWLER has 2 senses:

1. English lexicographer who wrote a well-known book on English usage (1858-1933)

2. someone who hunts wild birds for food

  Familiarity information: FOWLER used as a noun is rare.

• FOWLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English lexicographer who wrote a well-known book on English usage (1858-1933)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Fowler; Henry Watson Fowler

Instance hypernyms:

lexicographer; lexicologist (a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who hunts wild birds for food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("fowler" is a kind of...):

hunter; huntsman (someone who hunts game)

Derivation:

fowl (hunt fowl)

 Context examples 

Then Hans hastened home and brought a fowler’s net with little bells and hung it round about her, and she still went on sleeping.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Ma foi! but they come to our lure like chicks to the fowler.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was slighted like and had no say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend’s house.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman,” said Mrs. Toller serenely.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A few rich settles and bancals, choicely carved and decorated with glazed leather hangings of the sort termed or basane, completed the furniture of the apartment, save that at one side of the dais there stood a lofty perch, upon which a cast of three solemn Prussian gerfalcons sat, hooded and jesseled, as silent and motionless as the royal fowler who stood beside them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in the island of Mauritius.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your interests were the same as his.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)