See ahoy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle:",
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"ref": "1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.",
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"ref": "1989, Forbes, volume 143, numbers 5-7, page 74:",
"text": "Lawsuits, ahoy! […] Towns can regulate use of their beaches. But what about the waters offshore?",
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{
"ref": "1992, Championship Run (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 75, page 61",
"text": "Catalytic converters ahoy – Zeppelin's latest is one of those high-rev 3D driving games that simulates racing tracks from all over the world."
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"ref": "1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle:",
"text": "While he was thus occupied, a voice, still more uncouth than the former, bawled aloud, ‘Ho! the house, a-hoy!’",
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"ref": "1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.",
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"(nautical) Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention."
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"ref": "1989, Forbes, volume 143, numbers 5-7, page 74:",
"text": "Lawsuits, ahoy! […] Towns can regulate use of their beaches. But what about the waters offshore?",
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},
{
"ref": "1992, Championship Run (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 75, page 61",
"text": "Catalytic converters ahoy – Zeppelin's latest is one of those high-rev 3D driving games that simulates racing tracks from all over the world."
}
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
"word": "hola"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
"word": "ahoj"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
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"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
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"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
"word": "ahoi"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
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},
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"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
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},
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"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
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"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
"word": "a láthatáron"
},
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"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
"word": "ehi"
},
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
"word": "salvē"
},
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"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
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},
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
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},
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
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},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
"word": "a la vista"
},
{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
"word": "ohoj!"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
"word": "åhoj!"
},
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"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
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},
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"sense": "used to hail a ship, etc",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
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"word": "אֲהוֹי"
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],
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}
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