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whoa

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whoa  (hw, w)
interj.
Used as a command to stop, as to a horse.

whoa [wəʊ]
interj
(Individual Sports & Recreations / Horse Training, Riding & Manège) a command used esp to horses to stop or slow down
[variant of ho1]
Translations
whoa [wəʊ] EXCL¡so!
whoa
interjbrr
whoa [wəʊ] excl (also whoa there) → altolà!


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But I know enough to obey my masters, and to gid-dup, or whoa, when I'm told to.
“And when the proud forest is falling, To my oxen cheerfully calling, From morn until night I am bawling, Whoa, back there, and haw and gee; Till our labor is mutually ended, By my strength and cattle befriended, And against the mosquitoes defended By the bark of the walnut-trees.
As if Nature could support but one order of understandings, could not sustain birds as well as quadrupeds, flying as well as creeping things, and hush and whoa, which Bright can understand, were the best English.
 
 
 
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