howel

[ hou-uhl ]

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

Origin of howel

1
1795–1805; perhaps <Danish hövl<Middle Low German hövel; cognate with German Hobel kind of plane

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How to use howel in a sentence

  • I am thinking of your Rowlands and my Howels, so different!'

    Gladys, the Reaper | Anne Beale
  • They was finding him in America—the pleece was finding him, my Howels!

    Gladys, the Reaper | Anne Beale
  • My son Howels—there he is to be proving it—do always say so.

    Gladys, the Reaper | Anne Beale