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What does the last name "Houlette" mean?

This last name is french and i have heard it means 'crook' or 'trowel' but i was wondering if there was another meaning?

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houlette

habitational name from either of two places in Normandy called Houlettes, named with a diminutive of houle ??cave?? (see Houle 2).
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from a diminutive of houe ??hoe??, a metonymic ocupational name for an agricultural worker or someone who made or sold hoes.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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