- in place-names this term indicates a hollow, or low-lying piece of ground, and is found in such names as Hopeless Howe in Wigtownshire, surely an apt title for a depression. More typical is the Aberdeenshire name Howe Moss, although in some cases howe denotes a wide area of land surrounded by hills, such as the Howe o' the Mearns, south of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire.
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