'Whoa' definitions:

Definition of 'Whoa'

From: GCIDE
  • Whoa \Whoa\, interj. Stop; stand; hold. See Ho, 2. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'whoa'

From: GCIDE
  • Ho \Ho\, Hoa \Hoa\ (h[=o]), interj. [Cf. F. & G. ho.]
  • 1. Halloo! attend! -- a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach. "What noise there, ho?" --Shak. "Ho! who's within?" --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. [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.] [1913 Webster]
  • The duke . . . pulled out his sword and cried "Hoo!" --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • An herald on a scaffold made an hoo. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

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