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Definition of Holloaing
1. holloa [v] - See also: holloa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holloaing
Literary usage of Holloaing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hunting by Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset Beaufort, Mowbray Morris, Edward William Lewis Davis, Digby Collins, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1886)
"... and the other one coming round or through the covert, making use of his voice
and holloaing ' Forward,' &c., was to make the best of his way after them, ..."
2. Hunting by Henry Charles Fitz Roy Somerset Beaufort, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"... and the other one coming round or through the covert, making use of his voice
and holloaing ' Forward,' &c., was to make the best of his way after them, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"Now followed more hubbub and blowing of horns and ' holloaing all together, and
blowing motes and ..."
4. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature by Edward Arber (1897)
"It was nothing but the holloaing of people that lay to watch the cornfields; to
scare away the wild beasts out of their corn. Thus we passed Monday. ..."
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