Howel

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 196

how'el, n. A cooper's plane for smoothing and chamfering the inside of casks, etc.; linger or ink, then, boNboN, chair, get. n. {Mil.) A short, large Howitzer, how'its-Sr cannon, with or without a c h a m b e r, intended to throw large projectiles with small charges. 196