wo

intj

1. A falconer's call to a hawk.
2. A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.

noun

1. (alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete spelling of woe.

   “Such feeble arms, to work internal wo!”

2. (Derbyshire, Northern-England, dialectal)A wall.

   “He stands ahint our wo.”

   “Yo may turn up yor noses at me an' th' owd dame, An thrutch us like dogs agen th' wo : Bo as lung 's aw con nayger, aw'll ne'er be a beggar, So aw care no a cuss for yo o-o'.”

   “[…] thinkan it ran at him, thrast him up again t' wo, ramm't at him, […]”

   “Plantit up agen t'wo”

   “Hoo's pluck of a lion an' faces her foe Wi' calm in her e'en an' her beck agen t' wo; Hoo's firm i' decision, stonds up for her reets”

3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of warrant officer.

verb

1. (Northern-England, dialectal, obsolete, possibly)To wall (to build a wall, or build a wall around).

   “[…] “Theer was anudder time, teu, 'at I saw t Park Boggle, in anudder form; bit I wassent seah nart that time, as I was when I'd been fetchen t hogs. I'd been wo-en a gap 'at hed fawn ower o' tudder side o' to Park; […]”

   “It's a varra lang while—a caant tell ya hoo lang—sen it wes bilt, lang afooar Borradal fooak woet kucku in, er t' first cooach ran throo Dent, […]”

prefix

1. (morpheme)the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, the Richard van der Riet Woolley expansion