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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of hollo.

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Examples

  • The boy no sooner saw him mount his horse, than he holloed out to him that, rather than he should spoil his white-footed nag, he would come to him, on condition he would keep his fingers to himself.

    Kenilworth 2004

  • Cannonade leaped so big that the lookers-on holloed.

    Right Royal John Masefield 1922

  • I have often encountered holloed in the past tense.

    Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary Henry Louis 1921

  • Equally futilely from time to time, Barton, with his hands cupped to his mouth, holloed -- holloed -- holloed -- into the thunderous darkness.

    Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

  • I cried out, while the conductor and brakeman and station-agent all called and holloed and clamored for Duncan to hurry.

    The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

  • "I only holloed in _one_ ear, Tod," remonstrated Budge "an 'you ought to love dear Aunt Alice enough to have _that_ hurt a little rather than not wake up."

    Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881

  • He holloed out: "Who's there?" and then the noise stopped, but the light kept on.

    The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story William Dean Howells 1878

  • Pony confessed that he holloed a little; the others tried to look as if they never holloed at all, and Jim Leonard went on:

    The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story William Dean Howells 1878

  • His mother was standing at the back door, for she could not bear to stay in the house, and Pony's father holloed to her: "Here he is, Lucy, safe and sound!" and Pony's mother holloed back:

    The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story William Dean Howells 1878

  • He holloed with all his might, and by good luck some people came and reached him a stick, by which he pulled himself out.

    The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story William Dean Howells 1878

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