Fowling [noun]

Formerly the outlaws had only bowie-knives and a few fowling-pieces; now they have an ample supply of rifles.

I begged to wait for my gun; but no, the fowling-piece (loaded with ball, of course) and the two spears were quite enough.

There followed the quick crack of the fowling-piece, a cloud of feathers in the air, a long slanting fall.

I took mine, and Carlos said that he never went out without a brace of pistols and a fowling-piece.

Bob seems sorry that he must forsake the Marsh & River when he is daily fowling, & never kills any Game.

Every rifle, every fowling-piece had its story, and there were many of them; for Darling boasted a veritable armory.

But one day his lady was bathing in the bedroom, when he came in from hunting and fowling, laden with partridges and other game.

The boy followed, and then the master took his seat in the stern, with his flintlock fowling piece within reach.

They tell me you shoot well with a fowling-piece, my dear Vaudemont—are you equally adroit with a pistol?

Prints of horses and hunts, fishing-rods and fowling-pieces, carefully suspended, decorated the walls.