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howk
/ haʊk /
verb
- to dig (out or up)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of howk1
C17: from earlier holk
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Example Sentences
Tam got my contracts this week, an' I have to gang back into a common place and howk coals.
From Project Gutenberg
It is always kept so deep in the earth, that it is by no means easy to kick or "howk" the crown out of the ground.
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Let us howk it up again, and send it forth with a new lease of life.
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We'll howk holes in the sand, and fill the dirt into buckets, and row our girds, Hughie.
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You can howk ony mortal thing out o' the original Hebrew, the which all ministers hae at their finger ends.
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