hoa
6 points
English
3 letters
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Valid in: UK dictionary
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A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace. There is no ho with them. Decker.
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.
Definition: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.
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