What is the name meaning of HOWI. Phrases containing HOWI
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Native American
Native American Miwok name HOWI means "turtle-dove."
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, Christian, English
From the Hilly Land; Form of Howard; Guardian of the Home; Watchman
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English
English : habitational name from places in Lancashire and Northumberland. The former is named from Old English hÅh ‘spur of a hill’ or hÅc ‘hook’ + wÄ«c ‘outlying farm’; the latter probably originally had as its first element Old English hÄ“ah ‘high’, but was later influenced by hÅh.
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English
Pet form of English Howard, HOWIE means "high guard."
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Native American
Turtle dove.
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English, Scottish, and Irish
English, Scottish, and Irish : possibly a variant spelling of Harvey or an old spelling of Scottish Hawey, which Black records as an Ayrshire variant of Howie.
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English (mainly East Midlands) and Scottish
English (mainly East Midlands) and Scottish : variant of Hewitt 1.
Boy/Male
English
Nichname for Howard 'noble watchman.
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n.
A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.
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A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.
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A howitzer.
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A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon.
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A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar.
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A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc.
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A howitzer.
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A short, light, largebore cannon, usually having a chamber of smaller diameter than the rest of the bore, and intended to throw large projectiles with comparatively small charges.
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Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer.
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Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war.
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Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.