halloo'd

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halloo'd

  1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of halloo
    • 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.
    • 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 []
    • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: , volume III, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 177:
      [] the servants halloo’d out their excuses from the kitchen.