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All at once the cat thrust her paw inside the ring again, but the tailor was quick as lightning and chopped the paw off. The cats set up a terrible howl, and away they rushed through the door as fast as they could.
1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 13, column 2:
Dan was beginning to feel very depressed when suddenly the eerie howl of a dingo rang out[.]
Methought a legion of foul fiends / Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears.
1627, Michaell Drayton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “The Moone-calfe”, in The Battaile of Agincourt., London: A M for VVilliam Lee,, published 1631, →OCLC, page 223:
VVhen ominus ſignes to ſhew themſelues began, / That novv at hand this monſtrous birth fore-ran: / About at noone flew the affrighted Ovvle, / And dogs in corners ſet them dovvne to hovvle: […]
To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.