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Stop! (addressed to horses). “Ho!” or “Hoa!” was formerly an exclamation commanding the knights at tournaments to cease from all further action. (See Wooʹsh.)

“Scollers, as they read much of love, so when they once fall in love, there is no ho with them till they have their love.”—Cobler of Canterburie (1608).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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