howlet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of howlet
1425–75; late Middle English; perhaps < French hulotte wood-owl, perhaps derivative of Middle French huler to howl < Germanic; see howl
Example Sentences
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Then he sits on the stair, rapping with his tail on a board, and his back-aspect was dreader than his front; and a howlet lit in, and screeched at the horns of him.
From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rackham, Arthur
As I stood by yon roofless tower, Where the wa'flower scents the dewy air, Where the howlet mourns in her ivy bower, And tells the midnight moon her care.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
When you are weary and sleepy and hungry as a howlet, and, Madam Bubble and her three daughters make a ring round you, what do you do?
From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Whyte, Alexander
And there was grave squire Cardoness, Look'd on till a' was done; Sae in the tower o' Cardoness A howlet sits at noon.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
Will the night send a howlet or a bat?
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra
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