What is "hower"

Usage examples of "hower".

It was just that Grimes was, by the standards of the scientific party, only semi-literate, his status that of a hower of wood, a drawer of water.

Negligence, negligence, negligence, I marvell why so negligente a man was used in ye bussines: Yet know you yt all that I have power to doe hear, shall not be one hower behind, I warent you.

Her hand moved automatically to accept the Hower, but he held it away from her and shook his head.

In the euening vve put our selues on land tovvardes the harbour mouth, vnder the leading of Maister Carleill our Lieftenant generall, vvho after he had digested vs to march forvvard about the midnight, as easily as foote might fall, expresselye commaunding to keepe close by the sea vvash of the shore for our best and surest vvay, whereby we vvere like to goe through, and not to misse anye more of the vvay, vvhich once vve had lost within an hower after our first beginning to march, through the slender knowledge of him that tooke vpon him to be our guide, whereby the night spent on, which otherwise must haue bene done by resting.

General Eisen hower himself, although Montgomery seemed as perky as a cockerel fresh at dawn.