halter
See also: Halter
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɔltɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɔːltə/
- Rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English halter, helter, helfter, from Old English hælfter, hælftre (“halter”), from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā (“harness”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), equivalent to half- + -ter. Cognate with Scots helter (“halter”), Dutch halfter, halster (“halter”), Low German halfter, helchter, halter (“halter”), German Halfter (“halter, holster”).
Alternative formsEdit
- helter (obsolete, Northern England)
NounEdit
halter (plural halters)
- A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.
- A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- And Crates said, that love was cured with hunger, if not by time; and in him that liked not these two meanes, by the halter [transl. hart].
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
- “ […] No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. […].”
- A halter top.
SynonymsEdit
- headstall
- headpiece
- headcollar (British)
TranslationsEdit
animal's headgear
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female garment
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VerbEdit
halter (third-person singular simple present halters, present participle haltering, simple past and past participle haltered)
- (transitive) To place a halter on.
- What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
halter (plural halters)
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
halter (plural halteres)
- Alternative form of haltere
AnagramsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Old English hælftre, hælfter, from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
halter (plural haltres)
- A halter; horse headgear lacking a bit.
- (rare) A rope tied in a noose for hanging.
- (rare) The binding contract of marriage.
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “halter (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-06.
Norwegian BokmålEdit
VerbEdit
halter
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
halter m (plural halteres)
- Alternative form of haltere
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
halter
- indefinite plural of halt