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War whoop

noun

A yell intended to rally a group of soldiers in battle. Synonyms: battle cry, rallying cry, war cry.

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... bushes among them, and he was followed by a tall figure in war paint, lofty plumes waving from his war bonnet. Behind him came many warriors, and others were already on the flanks, spreading out like a fan, filing rapidly and shouting the war whoop. Robert recognized at once the great figure that stood before them. It was Daganoweda, the young Mohawk chief of his earlier acquaintance, whom he had met both on the war path and at the great council of the fifty sachems in the vale of Onondaga. Had ...

— The Shadow of the North - A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign • Joseph A. Altsheler

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... taken several miles away to give the Indians some sport before killing him. Then the chief commanded his followers to remain back while he led the captive some three hundred yards in front of them. At a given signal he told Coulter to save himself if he could. At once the war whoop resounded and six hundred demons were on the track of the fugitive. Coulter strained every nerve to outdistance his murderous pursuers. His great exertions caused the blood to spirt from his nostrils and smear the front of ...

— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson

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... almost in its shelter, when a faint cry came from the lofty cliff on the west. It was a low, whining sound, very distant, but singularly penetrating, a sinister note with which Robert was familiar, the Indian war whoop. He recognized it, and understood its significance. Warriors had seen the canoe and knew that it marked ...

— The Lords of the Wild - A Story of the Old New York Border • Joseph A. Altsheler

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Words linked to "War whoop" : call, rallying cry, yell, battle cry, vociferation, outcry, war cry, cry, shout