Definition of Hilloa

1. to hallo [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: hallo

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hilloa

hiller
hillers
hillfolk
hillfort
hillforts
hillier
hilliest
hilliness
hillinesses
hilling
hillite
hilllike
hillman
hillmen
hillo
hilloa (current term)
hilloaed
hilloaing
hilloas
hillock
hillocked
hillocks
hillocky
hilloed
hilloes
hilloing
hillos
hills
hillside
hillsides

Literary usage of Hilloa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Tales and Popular Fictions: Their Resemblance, and Transmission from Country by Thomas Keightley (1834)
"or "hilloa! hilloa! harkye :" then answers the other from above, "hilloa! hilloa! what do you want ... hilloa! hilloa ! come over to me."—" hilloa ! hilloa! ..."

2. The Poetical Works of Edward Vaughan Kenealy by Edward Vaughan Kenealy (1878)
"... Wouldst thou have Him forgive — because they're dead — Wretches whose lives on earth but imaged Hell I Now then, to cross the Styx — hilloa ! hilloa ! ..."

3. Goethe: A New Pantomime by Edward Vaughan Kenealy (1850)
"Now then, to cross the Styx — hilloa ! hilloa ! You rascal dead who wish to pass this way ! hilloa! hilloa! hilloa! hilloa! I say. ..."

4. The Rhine, Legends, Traditions, History, from Cologne to Mainz by Joseph Snowe (1839)
"hilloa I ho 1" The ferryman made no reply to this suspicious hail, but pushed off his boat from ... "hilloa I ferry I" was again repeated in a sterner key. ..."

5. The Rhine, Legends, Traditions, History, from Cologne to Mainz by Joseph Snowe (1839)
"hilloa ! ferry!" again hailed a voice from the shore he was making. " hilloa ! ho !" The ferryman made no reply to this suspicious hail, but pushed off his ..."

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