"howlet" meaning in English

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        "3": "hulotte"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English howlat, howlott etc, either borrowed from French hulotte or formed from Middle English howle (form of oule) + -et. Compare modern owlet.",
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      "form": "howlets",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XVIII:",
          "text": "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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        "An owl; an owlet."
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        {
          "word": "houlet"
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  "word": "howlet"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English howlat, howlott etc, either borrowed from French hulotte or formed from Middle English howle (form of oule) + -et. Compare modern owlet.",
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        "An owl; an owlet."
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      "word": "houlet"
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