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howk (third-person singular simple present howks, present participle howking, simple past and past participle howked)

1. (UK, dialect, transitive) To disturb by digging.
   • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:

     But Tom […] he pecked and howked the poor water-things about sadly, till they were all afraid of him, and got out of his way, or crept into their shells; so he had no one to speak to or play with.