"how't" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
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    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "how it"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1642, Henry More, A Christiano‐Platonicall diſplay of Life, page 122",
          "text": "How ſoul and ſpright be ſevered we ſee,\nBut how’t works by it ſelf is not yet ſhown;\nI mean without this ſprights aſſiſtencie,\nThough not quite by its ſelf.",
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        {
          "ref": "1706, François Gentil, Louis Liger, Le Jardinier Solitaire, pages 374–375",
          "text": "All that behold it cannot but be aſtoniſh’d to conſider how’t was poſſible that Torments ſhould be repreſented to us on a Flower.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "Contraction of how it."
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          "how",
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          "it",
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        "(obsolete) Contraction of how it."
      ],
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        "abbreviation",
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    {
      "ipa": "/haʊt/"
    }
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  "word": "how't"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
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        {
          "word": "how it"
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        "English 1-syllable words",
        "English contractions",
        "English non-lemma forms",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
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        "English terms with quotations"
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          "ref": "1642, Henry More, A Christiano‐Platonicall diſplay of Life, page 122",
          "text": "How ſoul and ſpright be ſevered we ſee,\nBut how’t works by it ſelf is not yet ſhown;\nI mean without this ſprights aſſiſtencie,\nThough not quite by its ſelf.",
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          "ref": "1706, François Gentil, Louis Liger, Le Jardinier Solitaire, pages 374–375",
          "text": "All that behold it cannot but be aſtoniſh’d to conſider how’t was poſſible that Torments ſhould be repreſented to us on a Flower.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Contraction of how it."
      ],
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        [
          "how",
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          "it",
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Contraction of how it."
      ],
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  "word": "how't"
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