Bat Fowling

Word BAT FOWLING
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The sons played cricket and went bat-fowling with the village boys, and not seldom joined with them in a poaching expedition to the paternal preserves. ❋ George William Erskine Russell (1886)

He was not afraid of his mother missing him till bedtime, as it was the wont of the youths -- especially of those who had comfortless homes -- to wander about in parties in the evening, bat-fowling sometimes, but often in an aimless sort of way, doing little bits of mischief, and seeking diversion, which they seldom found, unless there was any solitary figure to be shouted at and startled. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

Their manner of taking these birds resembles something a sport called bat-fowling. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

There's your low cost, you yeasty, bat-fowling coxcomb, you. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I know not whence your faith came; but while we were lads together at a country college, gathering blueberries, in study-hours, under those tall academic pines; or watching the great logs as they tumbled along the current of the Androscoggin; or shooting pigeons and gray squirrels in the woods; or bat-fowling in the summer twilight; or catching trouts in that shadowy little stream which, I suppose, is still wandering riverward through the forest -- though you and I will never cast a line in it again -- two idle lads, in short (as we need not fear to acknowledge now), doing a hundred things that the faculty never heard of, or else it had been the worse for us, -- still it was your prognostic of your friend's destiny that he was to be a writer of fiction." ❋ George William Curtis (1858)

There’s a bit of rough sex in this one, but just about the nastiest thing you’ll hear anyone say is, “Hell’s bells! or “You, you – bat-fowling, lily-livered skainsmate!” ❋ Unknown (2007)

a party of fellows bat-fowling along the hedges of that field that came through the dark, attracted by the glare of the torches, the blaze of the scarlet clothes, and the outcry. ❋ Ford Madox Ford (1906)

"go a bat-fowling", with lanterns, some of us on one side of the hedge and some on the other. ❋ Mark Rutherford (1872)

After dark we would “go a bat-fowling ", with lanterns, some of us on one side of the hedge and some on the other. ❋ Rutherford, Mark, 1831-1913 (1913)

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