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Bat-fowling

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Bat-fowling is an archaic method of catching birds at night,^[1] while they are at roost. The process involves lighting straw or torches near their roost. After awakening them from their roost, the birds fly toward the flames, where, being amazed, they are easily caught in nets, or beaten with bats. The phrase "beating about the bush" is said to be derived from this practice as the trapper's accomplices would go around the bushes to disturb the birds.^[2] The practice was also called lanciatoia in Italy and a variation was called low-belling. The low-belling process involves approaching birds with bright lights and using cow bells, which the birds were accustomed to, to approach the birds up close and capture them with a long-handled net.^[3]^[4]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rd.com/slideshows/8-amusing-stories-behind-common-expressions/5/ |title=8 Amusing Stories Behind Common Expressions | Reader's Digest |publisher=Rd.com |date=2011-11-13 |accessdate=2011-12-18}}
2. ^{{cite book|title=2107 curious word origins, sayings and expressions from white elephants to a song and dance|author=Funk, Charles Earle|authorlink=Charles Earle Funk|year= |isbn=0-88365-845-3| page=76}}
3. ^{{cite book|author= Macpherson HA |year=1897| title= A history of fowling|place= Edinburgh|publisher= David Douglas|page=60| url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924000125256}}
4. ^{{cite book|title=The sportsman's dictionary; or the Gentleman's companion: for town and country| place=London|year=1878|publisher=Fielding and Walker|url= https://archive.org/stream/sportsmansdictio00lond#page/n46/mode/1up}}

Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (page 90). {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060404124137/http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=turn&entity=HistSciTech000900240240&isize=L |date=April 4, 2006 }}

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