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howlet

noun

howlet

noun

Etymology From Middle English howlat, howlott etc, either borrowed from French hulotte or formed from Middle English howle (form of oule) + -et. Compare modern owlet.

1

An owl; an owlet.

  • Will the night send a howlet or a bat? / I asked: when something on the dismal flat / Came to arrest my thoughts and change their train.1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XVIII:

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