halter

See also: Halter

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔltɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːltə/
• Rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

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 forms

• helter (obsolete, Northern England)

Noun

halter (plural halters)

A horse wearing a halter

1. A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.
2. 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. […].”

3. A halter top.

Synonyms

• headstall
• headpiece
• headcollar (British)

Translations

animal's headgear

• Armenian: կապ (hy) (kap), սանձ (hy) (sanj), պախուրց (hy) (paxurcʿ)
• Aromanian: cãpestru n
• Bulgarian: оглавник m (oglavnik)
• Catalan: cabestre (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᎴᏫᏍᏙᏗ (alewisdodi)
• Cheyenne: hóxeeséeto'hamestôtse
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 韁繩 (zh), 缰绳 (zh) (jiāngshéng), 籠頭 (zh), 笼头 (zh) (lóngtóu), 羈 (zh), 羁 (zh) (jī)

• Czech: ohlávka f
• Dutch: halster (nl) m or n
• Esperanto: kolbrido
• Estonian: päitsed, päitserihm
• Finnish: riimu (fi), tallipäitset, päitset (fi), marhaminta (fi)
• French: licou (fr) m, licol (fr) m, chevêtre (fr) m (archaic)
• Friulian: cjavece f, cjaviestri m
• Galician: trenla (gl) f, xácoma f, ronzal m, ramal m, cabresto m, cabezada f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Halfter (de) n
• Greek: καπίστρι (el) n (kapístri)

  Ancient: φορβειά f (phorbeiá), στραγγάλη f (strangálē)

• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: kötőfék (hu)
• Ido: haltero (io)
• Irish: adhastar m
• Italian: capestro (it) m, cavezza f
• Japanese: 頭絡 (ja) (とうらく, tōraku), 鼻綱 (はなづな, hanazuna), 無口 (ja) (むくち, mukuchi)
• Kannada: ನೇಣು (kn) (nēṇu)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can

• Latin: capistrum n
• Macedonian: оглав m (oglav), огламник m (oglamnik)
• Malayalam: കൊലക്കയർ (ml) (kolakkayar)
• Maori: hāta
• Mongolian: ногт (mn) (nogt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grime m or f

  Nynorsk: grime f

• Occitan: capçana f, cabestre (oc) m
• Persian: پالهنگ‎ (fa)
• Polish: kantar (pl) m
• Portuguese: cabresto m
• Punjabi: ਧਲਿਆਰਾ (dhaliārā)
• Romanian: căpăstru (ro) n
• Russian: узда́ (ru) f (uzdá), по́вод (ru) m (póvod), недоу́здок (ru) m (nedoúzdok)
• Scottish Gaelic: aghastar
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀ла̄р m

  Roman: ùlār (sh) m

• Spanish: cabestro (es) m
• Swedish: grimma (sv) c
• Telugu: పలుపు (te) (palupu)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: yular (tr)
• Venetian: cavesa f, caveça f, cavezha f
• Vietnamese: dây (vi), dây thòng lọng

female garment

• Finnish: niskalenkkitoppi

• French: dos nu (fr) m

Verb

halter (third-person singular simple present halters, present participle haltering, simple past and past participle haltered)

1. (transitive) To place a halter on.

   What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?

Etymology 2

halt +‎ -er

Noun

halter (plural halters)

1. One who halts or limps; a cripple.

Etymology 3

Noun

halter (plural halteres)

1. Alternative form of haltere

Anagrams

• Hartel, Hartle, Thrale, lather, rathel, thaler

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• helter, heltre, heltere, helfter, heltyr, haltre, haltur

Etymology

Inherited from Old English hælftre, hælfter, from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaltər/, /ˈhɛltər/, /ˈhaltrə/

Noun

halter (plural haltres)

1. A halter; horse headgear lacking a bit.
2. (rare) A rope tied in a noose for hanging.
3. (rare) The binding contract of marriage.

Descendants

• English: halter
• Scots: helter, hilter

References

• “halter (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-06.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

halter

1. present tense of halte

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Portuguese

Noun

halter m (plural halteres)

1. Alternative form of haltere

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Swedish

Noun

halter

1. indefinite plural of halt