Meaning & use
Howk
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To dig, burrow, or hollow out; to extract by digging (a dialectal word used chiefly in Scots and Northern English).
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The farmer howked potatoes out of the cold, wet ground.
Children howked in the sand, searching for buried shells.
A note on using this word
Howk survives mainly in Scottish and Northern English dialect, though it appears occasionally in literary writing for regional flavor.
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