halloo
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How to use halloo in a sentence
That was the meaning of all the loud halloo—for that the hounds were unleashed and the hunting-horns sounded.
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton SinclairA boyish impulse, tempted me to give a loud halloo, in order to set the beautiful animal off at its wildest speed.
The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I | Susanna MoodieA loud halloo from Major Mowbray, who seemed advancing upon the wings of the wind, told Dick that he was discovered.
Rookwood | William Harrison AinsworthKarlsefin did so, and immediately after a faint and very distant halloo came back in reply.
The Norsemen in the West | R.M. BallantyneWe have an excellent illustration of those possibilities in the word “halloo,” commonly rendered as “hello.”
The Swastika | Thomas Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for halloo
hallo or halloa (həˈləʊ)
/ (həˈluː) /
a shout to attract attention, esp to call hounds at a hunt
a shout of "halloo"
to shout (something) to (someone)
(tr) to urge on or incite (dogs) with shouts
Origin of halloo
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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