Batfowler

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who takes part in bat-fowling.

    "He has eaten for his supper an entire chicken boiled in a lardpail he, and he himself is the batfowler who crossed like smoke the dark garden patches above First Creek […]"

Example

More examples

"He has eaten for his supper an entire chicken boiled in a lardpail he, and he himself is the batfowler who crossed like smoke the dark garden patches above First Creek […]"

Etymology

Compound of bat + fowler.

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