Also so-ho. [f. prec.]
1. intr. To shout or cry ‘soho!’ Hence Sohoing vbl. sb.
1599. Porter, Angry Wom. Abingt., IV. iii. Here’s so-ho-ing with a plague!
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 186. Even May, the most sagacious of greyhounds,… would as soon listen to Tom sohoing as to old Tray giving tongue.
2. trans. To announce the discovery or starting of (a hare) by this shout.
1834. Thacker, Courser’s Comp., I. 150. When a hare is found sitting, she ought to be so-ho’d.
1887. Field, 5 Feb., 160/3. A third hare was sohoed near the river-side.
