verb

• 1Scottish Dig out or up.

  ‘deep in their trenches the men stood, howking out the brown earth’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Sorry can't comment at the moment I'm too busy trying to howk an amazingly stubborn bogey from my scrunched up beak.’
  • ‘Trump still wants to howk up Balmeadie?’

  1. 1.1no object, with adverbial Search about by digging or rummaging.
     ‘Frankie howked among the beer cans’
     More example sentences

     • ‘‘Treat this book like a treasure map that tells ye whaur tae howk’, states the introduction.’