Definition of "fowling-piece" [fowling-piece]

• A light gun for shooting fowls or birds of any kind. (noun)
• A picture of game. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Right: you shall see in the country, in harvest-time, pigeons, though they destroy never so much corn, the farmer dare not present the fowling-piece to them: why? because they belong to the lord of the manor; whilst your poor sparrows, that belong to the Lord of"
• "There was a red light shining through the crevices of a door at one corner of the building, and a dog presently came out baying loudly, and a limping man followed with a fowling-piece."
• "I am as tall as yonder fellow, and can kill with a fowling-piece as well as any man I know."