fowling piece

English

Noun

fowling piece (plural fowling pieces)

1. A light gun with smooth bore, adapted for the use of small shot in killing birds or small animals.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fowling piece”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)