wo

Interjection

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

Noun (1)

wo (plural wos)

1. (Derbyshire, Northern England, dialectal, Staffordshire) A wall.
   • He stands ahint our wo.1859, Thomas Moore, The Song of Solomon in the Durham Dialect, ii. 9
   • 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'.1871, Benjamin Brierly, “Weaver of Wellbrook”, in William-Edward-Armitage Axon, editor, Folk-song and Folk-speech of Lancashire, page 53

Verb

wo

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; […]1871, John Richardson, "Cummerland Talk": Being Short Tales and Rhymes, page 101
   • 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, […]1880, Thomas Clarke, Specimens of the Dialect of Westmorland, page 2

Noun (2) capitalized: WO

WO (plural WOs)

1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of warrant officer.

Prefix capitalized: Wo

Wo

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

   Synonyms:

   Gliese, Gl, GJ