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• howe
  howe

  noun

  a hole.
• Howe
  Howe

  noun

  E(dgar) W(atson), 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.

howe

¹ American  

[hou] / haʊ /

Or how

noun

1. a hole.

2. the hold of a ship.

3. a hollow; dell.

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adjective

1. hollow.

2. deep.

Howe ² American  

[hou] / haʊ /

noun

1. E(dgar) W(atson), 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.

2. Elias, 1819–67, U.S. inventor of the sewing machine.

3. Gordon Gordie, 1928–2016, Canadian ice-hockey player.

4. Irving, 1920–93, U.S. social historian and literary critic.

5. Julia Ward, 1819–1910, U.S. writer and reformer: author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic (wife of Samuel Gridley Howe).

6. Richard Earl HoweBlack Dick, 1726–99, British admiral (brother of William Howe).

7. Samuel Gridley 1801–76, U.S. surgeon and humanitarian.

8. William, 5th Viscount, 1729–1814, British general in the American Revolutionary War.

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Howe ¹ British  

/ haʊ /

noun

1. Elias. 1819–67, US inventor of the sewing machine (1846)

2. Gordon , known as Gordie . born 1928, US ice-hockey player, who scored1071 goals in a professional career lasting 32 years.

3. Howe of Aberavon, Baron, title of ( Richard Edward ) Geoffrey Howe . born 1926, British Conservative politician; Chancellor of the Exchequer (1979–83); foreign secretary (1983–89); deputy prime minister (1989–90)

4. Richard, 4th Viscount Howe. 1726–99, British admiral: served (1776–78) in the War of American Independence and commanded the Channel fleet against France, winning the Battle of the Glorious First of June (1794)

5. his brother, William, 5th Viscount Howe. 1729–1814, British general; commander in chief (1776–78) of British forces in the War of American Independence

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howe ² British  

/ haʊ /

noun

1. dialect a depression in the earth's surface, such as a basin or valley

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Etymology

Origin of howe

1325–75; Middle English (north and Scots), alteration of holl; see hollow

Example Sentences

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"Why," quoth I, "howe commeth thy Ierken, hose, and hat so be rayd with durte and myre, and thy skyn also?"

From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by Awdeley, John

X. Here is prosecuted the manner how they do choose their gouernors and iustices, and howe they doo execute the same.

From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Mendoza, Juan Gonzalez de

O," she said, "Hughie Kerr brings it over the hill from the howe of the Kells.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

"A bonnie nicht it is on hill an' howe, The moon's just glintin' o'er the Castle knowe."

From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Buchan, Patrick

Angantyr: Surely unlike to a mortal thou To wander about from howe to howe, And stand in the doorway here!

From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Kershaw, Nora

With an unchanged buy rating on the stock, analyst Stuart Howe flags that ASX-listed AML3D carried over A$16.8 million of orders into FY 2027 and has identified a A$78 million global sales pipeline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

The Gordie Howe International Bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, is scheduled to open Monday amid high U.S.-Canada trade tensions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

The standard toll for a commercial truck using the Gordie Howe bridge is $8.75 per axle, compared with $20 an axle for the Ambassador Bridge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

"We all need to be very supportive to the players that have come in," Howe said.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

“I have to bolt. Mr. Howe and I promised to feed our pals some good ol’ chop suey.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu