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Sunken fence or wall
Answer for the clue "Sunken fence or wall ", 5 letters:
ha-ha
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Word definitions for ha-ha in dictionaries
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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
interjection PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES funny peculiar or funny ha-ha?
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 .]
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).
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.