FOWLING-PIECE
—has been generally used to imply a GUN of any description, so far as it was applicable to the purpose of killing GAME, or, in fact, WILD FOWL of any kind. It is, however, now more properly applied to those of five or six feet in the barrel, principally made use of for killing SEA and WATER FOWL, as Wild or Solan Geese, Wild Ducks, Widgeon, Teal, &c.