how'll

/haʊl/

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how will

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Meanings

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  1. contractionhow will

    I'm as willing to save life as the next man, but I'm not going to wreck my ship fooling round a reef in the night-time. How'll you get a boat over, anyhow?

    2004, Morgan Robertson, Sinful Peck
  2. UScontractiondateddialectalwill, how about (as a proposal)

    "Well, mine ain't," said Beatrice; "I wish she was, that's all; I'd like to change with you; come, how'll you swap?"

    1863, Harper's Magazine
    1 more example

    So Smith took the bait, and says he, "Mr. Brown, I wouldn't sell out, but we might swap aroun' — How'll you trade your place fer mine?"

    1916, James Whitcomb Riley, Hewitt Hanson Howland, The Hoosier Book: Containing Poems in Dialect

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with how'll

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Chicago

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