different between howker vs hower

English

howker (plural howkers)

hower (plural howers)

Obsolete spelling of hour
- 1880-1881: Clements R Markham (editor), The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622
  [O]ur men receaued no other recreation from work and sleep, but onlie the time of eateing their meat, whereof they had sufficient, thrice in every twenty-four howers; and besides, some of them had alowed aquauitæ at ech four hower's end.

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