Associations to the word «Howel»

Wiktionary

HOWEL, noun. A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering their work, especially the inside of casks.
HOWEL, verb. (transitive) To smooth; to plane.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope