hooked

Example Sentences

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You know they howked him out of Woodcote?

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir

The town vanishes quickly, but the quarry we howked it out of stands grim and red, watching the train for many a mile.

From Tommy and Grizel by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

Swimming like rats, they made for the scow, scrambled on board her, howked up the anchor stone and shot out the oars.

From Great Sea Stories by French, Joseph Lewis

That angered him, and, "It's likely," he rapped out, "that I'll allow the land round my house to be howked and trenched and made a mudhole of to oblige a wheen things like you!"

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

“Well, I howked him out first thing yesterday morning.”

From The Camera Fiend by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)