halloo

[ UK /hˈæluː/ ]
VERB
  1. shout `halloo', as when greeting someone or attracting attention
  2. urge on with shouts
    halloo the dogs in a hunt
NOUN
  1. a shout to attract attention
    he gave a great halloo but no one heard him
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How To Use halloo In A Sentence

  • Do not halloo till [until] you are out of the wood(s). 
  • The school children had been marched out en masse and had been told who Willkie was, for they hallooed and waved with enthusiasm. The Last Empress
  • In the after part of the day, we discovered three lodges of Sioux Indians encamped on the bank, all hallooing and waving their blankets for us to come in, to the shore.
  • They are forbidden by our statutes to take one bird by means of another, to shoot beasts with bow or arblast, to halloo to a hunting-horn, or to spur the horse after game. Ivanhoe
  • Halloo, who's that?" called a gruff voice from the darkness, the hail proving more startling than the first surprise. Cowmen and Rustlers A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges
  • I remember a retired major craned out of the window of his flat — and, crimson in the face, his bulky person almost overbalancing, hallooed furiously. The Watch
  • Your ship will immediately be surrounded by frantic rowboats, young men standing at the gunwales shouting Halloo!
  • There was a Rugby scrum in the refectory, and hunting-men cried the "View halloo!" and shouted "Yoicks! yoicks!" ... Now It Can Be Told
  • Do not halloo till [until] you are out of the wood(s). 
  • All day long they heaved, and hallooed, turning at intervals to scribble at their desks.
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