howp

English

Verb

howp (third-person singular simple present howps, present participle howping, simple past and past participle howped)

  1. (obsolete) To cry out; to whoop.
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  2. Obsolete form of hoop.
  3. Obsolete form of hope.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for howp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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