howlet

American  

[hau-lit] / ˈhaʊ lɪt /

noun

British Dialect.

1. an owl or owlet.

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howlet British  

/ ˈhaʊlɪt /

noun

1. archaic another word for owl

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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

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Example Sentences

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howlet

There was three fooles, fell out about an howlet: The one sed it was an owle, The other he sed nay, The third he sed it was a hawke, And her bels wer cut away.

From The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

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 Arthur Rackham

"Howlet here, howlet there, Jenny, ye ken weel his auld brass will buy you a new pan."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various

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 Alexander Whyte

He stands by a roofless tower, where "the howlet mourns in her dewy bower," and "sets the wild echoes flying," and adds to a perfect picture of the scene his famous vision of "Libertie."

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various

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