different between wildfowl vs scry

English

Etymology

wild +? fowl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?ldfa?l/

Noun

wildfowl (plural wildfowls or wildfowl)

1. Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans.
   • 1785, William Cowper, The Task: A Poem in Six Books, London: J. Johnson, Book 4, p. 168,^[1]

     […] Whoso seeks an audit here

     Propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish,

     Wildfowl or ven’son, and his errand speeds.

   • 1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, London: Secker & Wartburg, Chapter 3, p. 81,

     In these early days of the journey we eat well. We have brought salted meat, flour, beans, dried fruit, and there are wildfowl to shoot.

2. Waterfowl.

Translations

Verb

wildfowl (third-person singular simple present wildfowls, present participle wildfowling, simple past and past participle wildfowled)

1. To hunt wildfowl.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 220b.

     The hunting of the kind of winged creatures, taken as a whole, is called wildfowling.

Derived terms

• wildfowler
• wildfowling

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• skry

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English scrien, scryen, a shortened form of Middle English ascrien, from Old French escrier (“to cry out”). Influenced by Middle English descrien (“to descry”).

Verb

scry (third-person singular simple present scries, present participle scrying, simple past and past participle scried)

1. To predict the future using crystal balls or other objects.

   The fortune teller claimed she could scry [into] the future.

2. (obsolete) To descry; to see.

Translations

Derived terms

• scryer

Etymology 2

From Middle English ascry, ascrie, escrie, from Anglo-Norman ascri, from Old French escri.

Noun

scry (plural scries)

1. (obsolete) A cry or shout.
2. A flock of wildfowl.

Verb

scry (third-person singular simple present scries, present participle scrying, simple past and past participle scried)

1. (obsolete) To proclaim.

Anagrams

• Cyrs