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Owl vs Owld - What's the difference?

owl | owld |

As a noun owl

is (computing).

As an adjective owld is

.

owl

English

(wikipedia owl)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) owle, from (etyl) ‘to wail, howl’, Avestan (term) ‘to call out’)Rick Derksen, ''Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon'', s.vv. “v?pìti”, “vyp?” (Leiden: Brill, 1998), pp. 532:535..Vladimir Orel, ''A Handbook of Germanic Etymology , s.vv. “*uwwal?n”, “*uww?”, “*?faz ~ *?f?” (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 436.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing.
  • A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active.
    • Derived terms
    * barn owl * eagle owl * elf owl * great horned owl * little owl * long eared owl * night owl * owl bus * owl-butterfly * owl-faced monkey * * owlglass * owling * owlish * owl jug * owl-light * owl-moth * owl-swallow * owl train * owly * powerful owl * rufous owl * screech owl * sea-owl * stuffed owl * tawny owl *
    References
    See also
    * hoo * hoot * * whoo

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A variety of the domestic pigeon.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * low

    owld

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=, title=The Wrecker, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=A sore penny it has cost me, first and last, and by all tales, not worth an owld tobacco pipe." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1909, author=Leland Powers, title=Practice Book, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I was standin' by owld Foley's gate, whin I heard the cry of the hounds coming across the tail of the bog, an' there they wor, my dear, spread out like the tail of a paycock, an' the finest dog fox ye ever seen a sailin' ahead of thim up the boreen, and right across the churchyard. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1905, author=George Bernard Shaw, title=The Irrational Knot, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Woy, owld Lind sends me in to Conly to cam in to him into the board-room. ' }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Ernest Thompson Seton, title=Two Little Savages, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Shure the Dog and the Cat both av thim was scairt, and the owld white-faced cow come a-runnin' an' jumped the bars to get aff av the road." }}