Synonyms:
domestic_fowl, fowl, poultry
Meaning: a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
Usage examples
"We can not tame an eagle as we can a barnyard fowl.
Often it is given to ducks and fowl to fatten them, and sometimes it is put into the curry pot.
Put a little bag of "mixed spices," such as are used in making pickles, on to cook with the fowl.
"Besides, it's a casserole, with rice, and I defy you to detect whether the chief ingredient be fish, flesh or fowl."
It was a sight which gave a zest to his comfortable quarters, and to the cold fowl and the bottle of wine which the butler had brought up for him.
To her master's bitter, though deserved, reproaches, Marfa Ignatyevna replied that the fowl was a very old one to begin with, and that she had never been trained as a cook.
The prisoner expected that he would be at no expense that day, for like an economical man he had concealed half of his fowl and a piece of the bread in the corner of his cell.
Marfa Ignatyevna cooked the dinner, and the soup, compared with Smerdyakov's, was "no better than dish-water," and the fowl was so dried up that it was impossible to masticate it.
There, before either king, or courtiers, or ladies-in-waiting could stop her--even had they wished to do it, which remains doubtful--she came behind the wicked Grognon, and twisted her neck, just as a cook does a barn-door fowl.
The berries, arranged on bunches of nice curled parsley, make an exceedingly pretty garnish for supper-dishes, particularly for white meats, like boiled fowl a la Bechamel, the three colours, scarlet, green, and white, contrasting so well, and producing a very good effect.