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Sunken barrier
Answer for the clue "Sunken barrier ", 5 letters:
ha-ha
Alternative clues for the word ha-ha
Word definitions for ha-ha in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
interjection PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES funny peculiar or funny ha-ha?
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing [syn: hee-haw , horselaugh , haw-haw ] a ditch with one side being a retaining wall; used to divide lands without defacing the landscape [syn: sunk fence , haw-haw ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also haha , used of laughter since ancient times; compare Old English ha ha , Greek ha ha , Latin hahae . A different attempt at representation is in py-hy (1580s).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. An approximation of the sound of laughter. interj. An approximation of the sound of laughter. n. 1 A laugh. 2 Something funny; a joke. Etymology 2 alt. A ditch with one vertical side, acting as a sunken fence, designed to block the entry ...
Usage examples of ha-ha.
Just consider how well things had gone yesterday morning when Henry Patterson threw his control-freak hissy fit, ha-ha.
Glass photographs from its early glory days show an elaborate pile of building, recomplicated with trap-doors and hidden passages within, and topiary gardens and ha-has without.
It was weird and beautiful and exciting to be sitting out there listening to the bullbats squeak, waiting for people to ha-ha all at once on account of some poor sap getting a pie in the face, or yelp and squeal when the spaceships landed and let loose with a barrage of ray-guns.
Had I known the Duse was there, her poet chap might have found dangerous competition, ha-ha.
For him, it was impossible to celebrate with hoarse ha-has, like his cousins, the discomfiture of these women when they realized that they had wasted so many hours without accomplishing more than abundant drinking.
I spent half an hour over there and she put him down constantly, all these barbs and zingers, little ha-has at his expense.
She gestured out through the window, at the terrace of rosebushes and the garden beyond the ha-ha, the walls and trees and the avenue leading uphill to the stately home.