Definition of "howf"

howf

/haʊf/

noun
plural howfs
1. A frequent meeting place; a haunt (sometimes one regarded as not respectable); specifically, a public house or tavern.
  Quotations
  [A]s this Scotsman's howf lies right under your lee, why, take any port in a storm.
  1822, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Pirate. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., page 60
2. A rudimentary shelter, especially one used by a mountaineer; a hut.
verb
third-person singular simple present howfs, present participle howfing, simple past and past participle howfed
1. (intransitive, Scotland, archaic) To frequent or resort to a place; to haunt.