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}]
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}.] [1913 Webster]
Haw-haw \Haw-haw"\ (h[add]*h[add]), n. [Duplication of haw a hedge.] 1. See {Ha-ha}. [1913 Webster] 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]
Hawhaw \Haw*haw"\, v. i. [Of imitative origin.] To laugh boisterously. [Colloq. U. S.] [1913 Webster] We haw-haw'd, I tell you, for more than half an hour. --Major Jack Downing. [1913 Webster]