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  • verb Present participle of hallo.

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Examples

  • For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems.

    The second part of King Henry the Fourth 2004

  • Or Sondra halloing gayly for him to come on, or the two of them laughing and chatting a hundred yards ahead in some concealed chapel of the aisled trees where he could not see them.

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • As they scattered some of the mercenaries set out in pursuit, echoing the halloing cry of hunters riding down deer.

    Conan The Triumphant Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

  • The small herd is directed campwards, and some of us again scout round, halloing and shouting, but keeping our eyes well "skinned" for anything on the ground.

    Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

  • Soon two young fellows dashed down the sands, halloing in answer to the syren, and stood with wondering eyes beneath the bows.

    Adventures in Many Lands Various

  • Sir Robert did get away half across the field once and nearly demolished a hound, with twenty voices halloing to Crawley to come back, and the master using language which his godfathers and godmother never taught him, I am certain.

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

  • We snatched up our rifles and hastened to the top of the little rising ground on which our houses were built, and thence we saw, not Injuns, but fourteen or fifteen Creoles, galloping towards our clearing, halloing and huzzaing like mad.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

  • And the soldiers below were gaining courage and responding to the rallying cries of the captains, who were halloing and pointing toward the edge of the cliff, down in the direction of the cataract.

    Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Ellsworth Douglass

  • During the night they heard Peth halloing to the schooner, calling for Jarrow, but they gave no answer.

    Isle o' Dreams Frederick Ferdinand Moore 1930

  • QUOTATION: For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems.

    Quotations 1919

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