Definition of "hoot"

Well, it was Sunday morning, and the wheat nothing like ripe; but it was a chance, and I got onto my reaper and banged down every hoot of it before Monday night.

1878, John Hanson Beadle, Western Wilds, and the Men who Redeem Them, Jones Brothers, page 611

Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more,

1711, John Dryden, “Satire IX”, in Dryden’s Juvenal

The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders / At our quaint spirits.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene ii]

Outside an owl was hooting most dismally in the darkness. The villa was on a by-road, and there was no human sound to link them up with life.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

And I will be content, that Partridge, and the rest of his Clan, may hoot me for a Cheat and Impostor, if I fail in any single Particular of Moment.

1708, Isaac Bickerstaff [Jonathan Swift], Predictions for the Year 1708‎

On the construction you could make a pot of hoot in no time. You oughter be able to get two or three quid a day when things is busy.

1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Sydney, N.S.W.: A&R Classics, published 2013, page 304