howletとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Equivalent to owlet, influenced by howl. Compare French hulotte and Old High German hwela, hiuwela.

名詞

howlet (複数形 howlets)

1. An owl; an owlet.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XVIII:

     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.

参照

• howlet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

アナグラム

• thowel