An archaic or dialectal plural of fowel/fowl; birds, particularly domestic poultry or game birds kept for food or hunting.
An obsolete or regional variant plural of 'fowl' found in Middle English and early modern texts, representing older grammatical patterns before standardized pluralization.
Old spellings like 'fowells' reveal that English plurals weren't always regular—people spelled and spoke differently by region, and 'fowells' is like a snapshot of one dialect frozen in time.
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