'Whoa' definitions:
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]