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Howlet

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An owl; an owlet.

    "Will the night send a howlet or a bat? / I asked: when something on the dismal flat / Came to arrest my thoughts and change their train."

Etymology

From Middle English howlat, howlott etc, either borrowed from French hulotte or formed from Middle English howle (form of oule) + -et. Compare modern owlet.

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