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howlet
[ hou-lit ]
noun
- an owl or owlet.
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Origin of howlet1
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Example Sentences
Leaving Howlet and Meadows grinning at a highly improbable adventure, he slapped the boy on the shoulder.
It would have been nice to see Meadows wind up rich, or for Howlet to become mayor of the dome, but what could I do?
Better if he sate in a barn and helped madge-howlet to catch mice!
And I heard close at hand the call of an owl, as like the whimper of a child as ever howlet's vesper mocked.
"But I was not thinking of going there to-night," she added, and the howlet in the bush beside me hooted at my ignominy.
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