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"Halloo!" cried the goodwife, and away she ran after it, with the frying-pan in one hand and the ladle in the other, as fast as she could, and the children behind her, while the goodman came limping after, last of all.
At almost any time of the day—save ever the sacred hour of noon—you may see the fish-hunters pursuing their sport; with loud halloos, brandishing their spears, and splashing through the water in all directions.
She was afraid that her faint cry would not be heard, but at least one member of the group responded to it, for there was an answering halloo, and a small figure detached itself from the rest and darted forward.
Verb
halloo (third-person singular simple presenthalloosorhallooes, present participlehallooing, simple past and past participlehallooed)
[…] they set up two or three great Shouts, hollowing with all their might, to try if they could make their Companions hear; but all was to no purpose:
1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes:
As our object was rather to enjoy the music of the chase, than to capture the deer, they shouted and hallooed as he entered the water, and he wheeled back, and went tearing in huge affright through the woods, up the island again.
1907, William Hope Hodgson, The Boats of the "Glen Carrig":
As we ran, we hallooed, and so came upon the boy, and I saw that he had my sword.
1917, Charles S. Brooks, There's Pippins And Cheese To Come:
We hallooed again, to rouse the trapper.
(transitive) To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on.
1692, Richard Davis, Truth and Innocency Vindicated against Falshood & Malice, London: Nath. and Robert Ponder, page 6:
There is no place left to suspect, but that there were Managers of the Party, who clap’d their hands, and halloo’d the giddy young People to such rash Undertakings.
1718, Matthew Prior, Alma, or, The Progress of the Mind, Canto 2, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: J. Tonson and J. Barber, Volume 2, p. 101,
Old JOHN halloo’s his hounds again:
1735, George Berkeley, A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics, London: J. Tonson, page 12:
“Let us burn or hang up all the Mathematicians in Great Britain, or halloo the mob upon them to tear them to pieces every Mother’s Son of them […]”
1838, William Gilmore Simms, “The Cherokee Embassage”, in Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story, with Other Tales of Imagination, volume 2, New York: George Adlard, pages 187–188:
He played with Jacko like a child—rolled with him about the decks—hallooed him on to all manner of mischief—clapped his hands and cheered him in his performance, and then, in his own language, pronounced a high eulogy upon his achievements.
1915, Frederick Scott Oliver, chapter 3, in Ordeal by Battle, London: Macmillan, page 29:
It is not credible that Germany was blind to the all-but-inevitable results of letting Austria loose to range around, of hallooing her on, and of comforting her with assurances of loyal support.
1694, Robert Ferguson, A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, London, page 8:
[…] the unhappy Man was halloo’d and persued to Death […]
1915, E. D. Cuming, Fox and Hounds, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 7:
Now, if you can keep your brother sportsmen in order, and put any discretion into them, you are in luck; they more frequently do harm than good: if it be possible, persuade those who wish to halloo the fox off, to stand quiet under the cover-side, and on no account to halloo him too soon […]
1955, W. H. Auden, “Lakes”, in Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden, New York: Modern Library, published 1959, page 149:
A lake allows an average father, walking slowly, To circumvent it in an afternoon, And any healthy mother to halloo the children Back to her bedtime from their games across:
1974, James Purdy, The House of the Solitary Maggot, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 300:
She pulled her vehicle to an abrupt stop, and then hallooed him.