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English Dictionary: haw-haw by the DICT Development Group
4 results for haw-haw
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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
    Synonym(s): sunk fence, ha- ha, haw-haw
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ha-ha \Ha-ha"\, n. [See {Haw-haw}.]
      A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one
      is close upon it. [Written also {haw-haw}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Haw-haw \Haw-haw"\, n. [Duplication of haw a hedge.]
      See {Ha-ha}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hawhaw \Haw*haw"\, v. i. [Of imitative origin.]
      To laugh boisterously. [Colloq. U. S.]
  
               We haw-haw'd, I tell you, for more than half an hour.
                                                                              --Major Jack
                                                                              Downing.
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