Brewer's: Woosh

when addressed to horses, means “Bear to the left.” In the West of England they say Woag- i.e. wag off (Anglo-Saxon, woh, a bend or turn). Woosh is “Move off a little.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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