int. Also woyh. [Exclamatory.] A call to a horse to stop. (Cf. WAY, WO, WHOA int.)
1797. T. Morton, Cure for Heart-ache, I. i. Frank (without). Woyh! whoh! Smiler!
1809. R. Kerr, Agric. Berw., 503. Formerly, in speaking to their horses, carters … in calling to stop used the incommunicable sound of prroo, now wo, or woy.
1828. Carr, Craven Gloss., Who, Woy, a word used to stop horses in a team.
