English

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Etymology

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From moor +‎ fowl.

Noun

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moorfowl (plural moorfowl or moorfowls)

  1. The red grouse.
    • 1902 January 3, “A Smuggling Adventure”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[1], volume 4, number 22, page 692:
      It was overgrown by enormous beds of reeds, in which moorfowl, water-hens, and coots abounded []
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