[syn: sunk fence, ha-ha, haw-haw]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ha-ha \Ha-ha"\ (h[aum]*h[aum]"), n. [See Haw-haw.]
A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one
is close upon it. [Written also haw-haw.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Haw-haw \Haw-haw"\ (h[add]*h[add]), n. [Duplication of haw a
hedge.]
1. See Ha-ha.
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2. a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing. [WordNet
sense 1]
Syn: hee-haw, horselaugh, ha-ha.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. a sunken fence (so as not to interfere with the view).
[WordNet sense 3]
Syn: haha.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hawhaw \Haw*haw"\, v. i. [Of imitative origin.]
To laugh boisterously. [Colloq. U. S.]
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We haw-haw'd, I tell you, for more than half an hour.
--Major Jack
Downing.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
haw-haw
n 1: a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing [syn: hee-
haw, horselaugh, ha-ha, haw-haw]
2: a ditch with one side being a retaining wall; used to divide
lands without defacing the landscape [syn: sunk fence, ha-
ha, haw-haw]