A British dialectal verb meaning to dig, grub, or disturb soil — to root around and turn things up. Common in Scottish and Northern English dialects. Can describe anything from potato digging to rummaging through a pile of things. Also used figuratively for digging up information or old memories.
He spent the afternoon howking tatties out of the frost-hardened ground.
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(UK, dialect, transitive) To disturb by digging.
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