Citations:wo

a wall

 * forms: wo (Cumberland, Derbyshire, Durham, Lake District, Lancashire, N.Cy., Northumberland, Westmorland), woa (Lancashire, Westmorland), woh (Durham), woghe (northeast Lancashire), wough (Lancashire, Derbyshire), wau(gh) (west Yorkshire), waw (Cheshire, Cumberland, N.Cy., Westmorland, west Yorkshire)

wo

 * 1859, Thomas Moore, The Song of Solomon in the Durham Dialect, ii. 9:
 * He stands ahint our wo.
 * 1871, Benjamin Brierly, Weaver of Wellbrook, in Folk-song and Folk-speech of Lancashire (ed. William-Edward-Armitage Axon), page 53:
 * Yo may turn up yor noses at me an' th' owd dame,
 * An thrutch us like dogs agen th' wo :
 * Bo as lung 's aw con nayger, aw'll ne'er be a beggar,
 * So aw care no a cuss for yo o-o'.
 * 1884, Jack Robison, Aald Tales ower Agen, 4:
 * Plantit up agen t&apos;wo
 * 1936, G. Halstead Whittaker, A Lancashire Garland of Dialect Prose and Verse, page 221:
 * Hoo's pluck of a lion an' faces her foe
 * Wi' calm in her e'en an' her beck agen t&apos; wo;
 * Hoo's firm i' decision, stonds up for her reets
 * An' bravely withstonds o' t' misfortins hoo meets.

waw

 * 1678, John Ray, A Collection of English Proverbs, 75:
 * She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall.
 * 1886, Thomas Farrall, Betty Wilson's Cummerland Teals, 41:
 * T'ootside waws was whitewesh't.

woa

 * 1869, Eavesdropper, Vill. Life, 13:
 * I'd just gitten behind a woa war I could heear without bein' sin.

wough: (Derbyshire, mining) a rock on the side of a vein

 * 1653, Manlove, Lead Mines, I. 234:
 * If... woughs be strete, the miner then may fire.
 * 1836, Furness, Medic., 17:
 * Where wough, or rider, twitch'd a leading fast.

wo

 * 1871, John Richardson, "Cummerland Talk": Being Short Tales and Rhymes, page 101:
 * “Theer was anudder time, teu, 'at I saw t Park Boggle, in anudder form; bit I wassent seah nart that time, as I was when I'd been fetchen t hogs. I'd been wo-en a gap 'at hed fawn ower o' tudder side o' to Park;
 * 1880, Thomas Clarke, Specimens of the Dialect of Westmorland, page 2:
 * It's a varra lang while—a caant tell ya hoo lang—sen it wes bilt, lang afooar Borradal fooak woet kucku in, er t' first cooach ran throo Dent,

wau

 * 1867, Twisleton, Lett. 5:
 * We've baath lime an' coals to leead, An' gaps to wau.