howel
[ hou-uhl ]
noun
a channel cut along the inside edge of a barrel stave to receive the barrelhead.
Origin of howel
11795–1805; 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 BealeThey was finding him in America—the pleece was finding him, my Howels!
Gladys, the Reaper | Anne BealeMy son Howels—there he is to be proving it—do always say so.
Gladys, the Reaper | Anne Beale
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