Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The offense of carrying wool or sheep out of the country, formerly punished by fine or banishment.
Wiktionary
- n. Formerly, the smuggling of sheep or wool out of England
- n. Birding specifically for owls.
- n. A small, juvenile, or baby owl; owlet.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (O. Eng. Law) The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of England contrary to the statute formerly existing.
Etymologies
- From owl + -ling. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“With the wind 'owling' round 'im, an' the thunder crashin 'an' the lightnin 'flashin'.”
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
“She just up and disappeared one night when the wind was 'owling' round the attic. ”
Once An Angel
“The family who made going out owling a family bonding experience after reading and re-reading "Owl Moon.”
“Late night owling it on CSPAN, I report some encouraging events in the Senate Finance Committee markup of the Baucus bill that has met with deservedly widespread criticism.”
“Late night owling it on CSPAN, I report some encouraging events in the Senate Finance Committee markup of the Baucus bill that has met with deservedly widespread criticism.”
“*Because my husband took all our children birding, and staying out late at night owling was a particular pleasure they shared, I smooshed together that's a technical writing term! all of their night journeys into the woods and wrote Owl Moon.”
“I know that the other MsR owling won't be considered a 'real' writer in the true literay sense, but we all know the story...”
“A guy I'm owling with at Hoggy ... well, I just found out that he likes Beyblade.”
“She even apologized for not owling me (mailing XD) before.”
“Once or twice I went out to see that all was right, and it was, and then the 'owling stopped.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘owling’.
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phrontistery - o
from phrontistery.info
oakum, oakus, oast, obambulate, obdormition, obduracy, obedible, obedientiary, obeism, obeliscolychny, obelize, obelus and 504 more...
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And another
retrocausality, brusque, gainsay, cheerio, jaundiced, chamois, caw, craw, fudge, bubbler, shebang, bolo and 244 more...
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wreckingball's Words
reprehensible, problematize, crepuscular, deleterious, pestilent, strumpet, draggletail, interrobang, meretricious, systematize, schadenfreude, capricious and 443 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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memespeak
caution: may or may not contain actual memes or even be remotely associated with memetics.
( personal list )Chuck Norris, perspective, cyberstalker, pedobear, facepalm, very no, cyber-bully, lolz, brb fbi, anon, chatroulette, 4chan and 106 more...
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verb
that's what's happening...
slither, galumph, bamboozle, befuddle, burgle, fluster, chortle, commiserate, finagle, flummox, filch, gargle and 77 more...
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Ovine affairs
clambake, flamboyant, zalambdodont, bramble, marjoram, lambada, lambrequin, clamber, epigram, lambda calculus, zwartbles, pelibüey and 83 more...
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burntsox's Words
demarche, biometrics, accommodation, fulsome, callipygian, ruidoso, maelstrom, fjord, simonize, sanitize, fraternity, ahoy and 38 more...
Tweets
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super-julia U.S. regional: The action of imitating the hooting of an owl, esp. to discover the whereabouts of birds when hunting them. Feb 13, 2009
trivet exxxxcelent! Oct 8, 2007
sionnach the smuggling of sheep or wool from England to another country, particularly France. Oct 8, 2007