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howelling

howelling is the present participle and gerund of howel.

Meaning of howel

Verb

howel (third-person singular simple present howels, present participle (US) howeling or (UK) howelling, simple past and past participle (US) howeled or (UK) howelled)

  1. (transitive) To smooth; to plane.
    • to howel a cask

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Questions about howelling

What is howelling the present participle and gerund of?
Howelling is the present participle and gerund of howel.

Words near howelling in the dictionary

  1. Howell
  2. Howell County
  3. Howell's spectacular thelypody
  4. howelled
  5. Howellian
  6. howelling
  7. Howells
  8. Howellses
  9. howels
  10. hower
  11. howers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: howelling (page history and authors); howel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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