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howel

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[hou-uhl] / ˈhaʊ əl /

noun

  1. a channel cut along the inside edge of a barrel stave to receive the barrelhead.

Etymology

Origin of howel

1795–1805; perhaps < Danish hövl < Middle Low German hövel; cognate with German Hobel kind of plane

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