hollo
Britishnoun
interjection
verb
Etymology
Origin of hollo
C16: from French holà ho there!
Example Sentences
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And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariner's hollo!
From Selections from Five English Poets by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Litchfield
They would come down closer and then stop and hollo the same words.
From A Trip to California in 1853 Recollections of a Gold Seeking Trip by Ox Train across the Plains and Mountains by an Old Illinois Pioneer by Washington Bailey
I walk with the owl, and make many to cry as loud as she doth hollo.
From The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
When a fair wind sprang up behind, The Albatross did follow, And every day hindered our way, Despite the Mariner's hollo!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 19th 1893 by Various
Riches are yours with a dollar bill; A million's the same little digit still, With nothing but naughts to follow, So hollo!
From Impertinent Poems by Edmund Vance Cooke
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