Hower

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of hour. alt-of, obsolete

    "[O]ur men receaued no other recreation from work and sleep, but onlie the time of eateing their meat, whereof they had sufficient, thrice in every twenty-four howers; and besides, some of them had alowed aquauitæ at ech four hower's end."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

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60 minutesabundant yearacademic yearannumbellbissextile year

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"[O]ur men receaued no other recreation from work and sleep, but onlie the time of eateing their meat, whereof they had sufficient, thrice in every twenty-four howers; and besides, some of them had alowed aquauitæ at ech four hower's end."

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