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Webster 1913 Edition
Hoa
{
, Ho
,Hoa
}Noun.
[See
Ho
, int
, 2.] erj.
A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
{
Ho
,Hoa
}(hō)
, int
erj.
[Cf. F. & G.
ho
.] 1.
Halloo! attend! – a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
“What noise there, ho?” Shak.
Ho
! who’s within?” Shak.
2.
[Perhaps corrupted fr.
hold
; but cf. F. hau
stop! and E. whoa
.] Stop! stand still! hold! – a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything.
[Written also
whoa
, and, formerly, hoo
.] The duke . . . pulled out his sword and cried “
Hoo
!” Chaucer.
An herald on a scaffold made an
hoo
. Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hoa
HOA
, exclam. [L. eho.] A call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach. What noise there, ho?
Hoa, who's within?