Suddenly, far down and beyond the toun there came a screech as the morning grew, a screech like an hungered beast in pain. The hooters were blowing in the Segget Mills.
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Hooter
//ˈhu.tɚ//
Synonyms for "hooter" (106 found)
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Related words (53)
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31 translations across 16 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- بُوق noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кла́ксон noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
- ци́ци noun (slang: breast)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 喇叭 noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
Czech
2 entries- klakson noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
- koza noun (slang: breast)
French
3 entries- klaxon noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
- nichon noun (slang: breast)
- robert noun (slang: breast)
German
2 entries- Hupe noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
- Hupe noun (slang: breast)
Greek
1 entries- κόρνα noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
Hungarian
2 entries- duda noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
- duda noun (slang: breast)
Italian
1 entries- clacson noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
Japanese
4 entries- クラクション noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
- ホーン noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
- 警笛 noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
- 警音器 noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
Korean
2 entries- 경적 noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
- 클락션 noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
Polish
1 entries- klakson noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
Russian
4 entries- гудо́к noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
- кла́ксон noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
- клаксо́н noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
- си́ська noun (slang: breast)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- dùdach noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- sìfōn noun (slang: breast)
- сѝфо̄н noun (slang: breast)
Slovak
1 entries- klaksón noun (horn of a motor vehicle)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.
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A chime whistle, presented to the L.M.S.R. by American model railway enthusiasts in 1939, is installed now as a works hooter at Crewe Works, as its height precludes its use on a British locomotive.
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Aye, it may be a joke to you, but it's his nose. He can't help having a hideous great hooter! And his poor little head, trembling under the weight of it!
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