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# {{obsolete spelling of|hour|lang=en}}
# {{obsolete spelling of|en|hour}}
#* '''1880'''-'''1881''': Clements R Markham (editor), ''The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622''
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1880|year_published=1881|editor=Clements R Markham|title=The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622
#*: [O]ur men receaued no other recreation from work and sleep, but onlie the time of eateing their meat, whereof they had sufficient, thrice in every twenty-four '''howers'''; and besides, some of them had alowed aquauitæ at ech four '''hower's''' end.
|passage=[O]ur men receaued no other recreation from work and sleep, but onlie the time of eateing their meat, whereof they had sufficient, thrice in every twenty-four '''howers'''; and besides, some of them had alowed aquauitæ at ech four '''hower's''' end.}}


===Anagrams===
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* {{anagrams|en|a=ehorw|how're|who're|whore}}
* {{anagrams|en|a=ehorw|how're|howre|who're|whore}}

Latest revision as of 21:25, 26 November 2023

See also: Hower

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Noun

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hower (plural howers)

  1. Obsolete spelling of hour.
    • 1880, Clements R Markham, editor, The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622, published 1881:
      [O]ur men receaued no other recreation from work and sleep, but onlie the time of eateing their meat, whereof they had sufficient, thrice in every twenty-four howers; and besides, some of them had alowed aquauitæ at ech four hower's end.

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