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A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.

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  1. interj. A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
  2. interj. Halloo! attend! -- a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
  3. interj. word/stop">Stop! word/stand">stand still! hold! -- a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything.
  4. A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace. There is no ho with them. Decker. 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. Etym: [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.
  5. interj. A word/stop">stop; a word/halt">halt; a moderation of pace. interj. Halloo! attend! -- a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach. interj. Stop! stand still! hold! -- a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything.