hallier
English edit
Etymology edit
From hale (“to pull”).
Noun edit
hallier (plural halliers)
- (obsolete) A kind of net for catching birds.
- 1782, The Sportsman's Dictionary:
- [Y]ou must make two plain halliers to accompany the tunnel-net […]
- 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia, page 65:
- The halliers, or wings of the tunnel, must not be pitched straight, but in a sort of semicircle; and the birds, when they stop their march, will run along them to the middle, where the mouth of the tunnel is open.
- 1897, Hugh Alexander Macpherson, A History of Fowling, page 364:
- He even adds that if the female is placed in the usual circular cage of wood, covered with cloth, and set out in the middle of a field, with a "Hallier" extended around the cage of the "Chanterelle," some males will be caught without any expenditure of trouble.
French edit
Etymology edit
From Picard hallot or Dutch hallot, with change of suffix.
Pronunciation edit
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /a.lje/
Audio (file)
Noun edit
hallier m (plural halliers)
Further reading edit
- “hallier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.