howk

How to use howk in a sentence

• Tam got my contracts this week, an' I have to gang back into a common place and howk coals.

  The Underworld | James C. Welsh

• It is always kept so deep in the earth, that it is by no means easy to kick or "howk" the crown out of the ground.

  The Romance of Plant Life | G. F. Scott Elliot

• Let us howk it up again, and send it forth with a new lease of life.

  The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. Harper

• We'll howk holes in the sand, and fill the dirt into buckets, and row our girds, Hughie.

  Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City | S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

• You can howk ony mortal thing out o' the original Hebrew, the which all ministers hae at their finger ends.

  Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 | Charles Dudley Warner