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  1.                 From en.wiktionary.org:
                    

    [Hollo]

    ** English

    [en]

    *** Alternative forms

    - [en]

    *** Etymology

    See [en], and compare [en].

    *** Interjection

    [en-interj]

    1. [en] Hey , hello 2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1609 | author= | title=A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. | chapter=Everie Woman In Her Humor | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10925 |passage=And then to _Apollo_ HOLLO, trees, hollo.}}

    1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1922 | author=Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm | title=Grimm's Fairy Stories | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11027 |passage=Presently up came the clerk; and when he saw his master, the parson, running after the three girls, he was greatly surprised, and said, "Hollo! HOLLO! your reverence! whither so fast!}}

    1. [en] hello (expressing puzzlement or discovery) 2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1897 | author=Richard Marsh | title=The Beetle |passage=‘ HOLLO!’ he cried. ‘The blind’s down!’ I had noticed, when we were outside, that the blind was down at the front room window.}}

    *** Noun

    [en-noun]

    1. A cry of " hollo " 2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1798 | author=Samuel Taylor Coleridge | title=Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems | chapter=Rime of the Ancient Mariner | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11101 |passage=And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners' HOLLO!}}

    1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1819 | author=Walter Scott | title=Ivanhoe | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/82 |passage="I always add my HOLLO," said the yeoman, "when I see a good shot, or a gallant blow."}}

    1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1910 | author=W.F. Drannan | title=Chief of Scouts | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12895 |passage=The old chief stepped to the entrance of the wigwam and made a peculiar noise between a whistle and a HOLLO, and in a few minutes there were hundreds of Indians there, both bucks and squaws.}}

    *** Verb

    [~es]

    1. To cry " hollo " 2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1899 | author=J. S. LeFanu | title=Uncle Silas | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14851 |passage=And Tom made another loutish salute, and cut the conference short by turning off the path and beginning to HOLLO after some trespassing cattle.}}

    1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1904 | author=Edward Dowden | title=Robert Browning | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12817 |passage=Better HOLLO abstract ideas through the six-foot Alpine horn of prose.}}