WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
how•el
(hou′əl),USA pronunciation n.
- Buildinga channel cut along the inside edge of a barrel stave to receive the barrelhead.
- Middle Low German hövel; cognate with German Hobel kind of plane
- Danish hövl
- perh. 1795–1805
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