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* '''howe!:''' (''interjection'') (1) a sailors’ cry when heaving the anchor up (2) a cry of pain or grief | * '''howe!:''' (''interjection'') (1) a sailors’ cry when heaving the anchor up (2) a cry of pain or grief | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:17, 11 July 2019
- Howe: site of Norse Thingmote (parliament) in Dublin
- howe: (1) a hill (2) a tumulus, barrow → from the Old Norse haug-r (mounds), as the Scandinavian kings (the shipmen) of Dublin were buried on the site
- howe!: (interjection) (1) a sailors’ cry when heaving the anchor up (2) a cry of pain or grief
- Howth Castle