howk

/ haʊk /

verb

1. to dig (out or up)

Word History and Origins

Origin of howk¹

C17: from earlier holk

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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

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

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

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