howlet
Noun

howlet (plural 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.



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