halter
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɔltɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɒltə/, /ˈhɔːltə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ), -ɒltə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]halter (plural halters)
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- 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:
- 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 [translating 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.
Synonyms
[edit]- headstall
- headpiece
- headcollar (British)
Derived terms
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Verb
[edit]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 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]halter (plural halters)
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]halter (plural halteres)
- Alternative form of haltere
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἁλτῆρες (haltêres).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]halter m (plural halters)
Further reading
[edit]- “halter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French haltère or directly from Latin haltēres, from Ancient Greek ἁλτῆρες (haltêres).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]halter m (plural halters, diminutive haltertje n)
- (weightlifting) A dumbbell or barbell.
Further reading
[edit]halter on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old English hælftre, hælfter, from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “halter, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-06.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Verb
[edit]halter
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]halter m (plural halteres)
- Alternative form of haltere
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]halter
- indefinite plural of halt
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