hault

English

Etymology 1

Old French hault, French haut. See haughty.

Adjective

hault (comparative more hault, superlative most hault)

1. (obsolete) Lofty; haughty.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Through support of countenance proud and hault

   • 1567, Ovid, “The Twelfth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:

     Ixions sonnes, who was so stout of courage and so hault,
     As that he durst on Junos love attempt to give assault.

Etymology 2

Verb

hault (third-person singular simple present haults, present participle haulting, simple past and past participle haulted)

1. Obsolete spelling of halt.

Anagrams

• Lauth, thula

Luxembourgish

Verb

hault

1. third-person singular present indicative of haulen
2. second-person plural present indicative of haulen
3. second-person plural imperative of haulen

Middle French

Alternative forms

• haut, ault

Etymology

From Old French haut, halt, from a conflation of Latin altus and Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”).

Adjective

hault m (feminine singular haulte, masculine plural hauls, feminine plural haultes)

1. high; high up
2. (figuratively) high; elevated

Descendants

• French: haut