howe

See also: Howe

English

Noun

howe (plural howes)

Alternative form of how (a tumulus, a bowl barrow).

Anagrams

WeHo

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman houe.

Alternative forms

houwe

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhɔu̯(ə)/

Noun

howe (plural howes)

mattock, pickaxe.

Descendants

English: hoe
Yola: howe

References

“houe, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Noun

howe

Alternative form of hough (“hough, hock”)

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe.

Noun

howe

hoe

References

Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 47

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