howel
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English
Etymology
From the same source as German Hobel. Related to Danish høvl and Swedish hyvel.
Pronunciation
Noun
howel (plural howels)
- A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering their work, especially the inside of casks.
Verb
howel (third-person singular simple present howels, present participle howelling, simple past and past participle howelled)
- (transitive) To smooth; to plane.
- to howel a cask
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “howel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)