Both Uses of
emit
in
The Ransom of Red Chief
- They weren't yells, or howls, or shouts, or whoops, or yawps, such as you'd expect from a manly set of vocal organs—they were simply indecent, terrifying, humiliating screams, such as women emit when they see ghosts or caterpillars.†
*emit = send out
- Just then we heard a kind Of war-whoop, such as David might have emitted when he knocked out the champion Goliath.†
emitted = sent out
Definition:
to produce and send out -- such as sound or light