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tal·ly·ho

 (tăl′ē-hō′)
interj.
Used in fox-hunting to urge the hounds on when a fox is sighted.
v. tal·ly·hoed, tal·ly·ho·ing, tal·ly·hos
v.tr.
To urge (hounds) on with such a hunting cry.
v.intr.
To shout "tallyho" as a hunting cry.
n. pl. tal·ly·hos
1. The cry of "tallyho."
2. A fast coach drawn by four horses.

[Probably alteration of French taïaut, from Old French thialau, taho.]
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tal•ly•ho

(ˌtæl iˈhoʊ)

n., pl. -hos.
1. used as a cry in fox hunting on sighting the fox.
n.
2. a cry of “tallyho.”
[1750–60; compare French tayau hunter's cry]
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tallyho

[ˈtælɪˈhəʊ] EXCL¡hala! (grito del cazador de zorras)
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However, he went with the man, who picked up several other newly landed immigrants, Poles, Lithuanians, and Slovaks, and took them all outside, where stood a great four-horse tallyho coach, with fifteen or twenty men already in it.
That was the time of stage coaches and tallyhos....
(Myrtle would enliven the staid Vichy salons with bizarre, drunken, Anglophile tallyhos.) Callil dismisses such claims to moral superiority.