halse

• (Northern England) IPA^(key): , ,
• Rhymes: -ɔːs

From Middle English hals, from Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *hals, from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *kols-, *ḱols- (“neck”).

Cognate with Dutch hals (“neck, throat”), German Hals (“neck, throat”), Norwegian hals (“neck, throat”), Swedish hals (“neck, throat”), Latin collum (“neck”).

• hawse (Scotland)

halse (plural halses)

1. (anatomy, archaic) The neck; the throat.

   Well, as you know they used to hang folk by the halse for horse theft.

• halseman

From Middle English halsen, halchen, from Old English *halsian, *healsian (“to embrace”, literally “to fall upon the neck of”), from heals (“neck”). See above. Cognate with Old Saxon helsjen (“to embrace”), Old High German halsōn (German halsen (“to jibe”)), Icelandic hálsa (“to embrace”).

• haulse
• halsh (dialectal)
• hawse, hose (Scotland)

halse (third-person singular simple present halses, present participle halsing, simple past and past participle halsed)

1. (dialectal) To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:

     soo the Kyng took a lytel hackney and but fewe felauship with him vntyl he came vnto sir Tristrams pauelione / and whanne syre Trystram sawe the Kynge / he ranne vnto hym and wold haue holden his styrope / But the kynge lepte from his hors lyghtly / and eyther halsed other in armes

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• enhalse

From Middle English halsen, halsien (“to beseech, adjure”), from Old English healsian, hālsian (“to entreat earnestly, beseech, implore”), from Proto-Germanic *hailisōną (“to greet”), from Proto-Indo-European *kailo-, *kailu- (“whole, safe”).

Cognate with Middle High German heilsen (“to predict”), Swedish hälsa (“to greet”), Icelandic heilsa (“to salute”). More at whole, hailse.

halse (third-person singular simple present halses, present participle halsing, simple past and past participle halsed)

1. (transitive) To greet; salute; hail.
2. (transitive) To beseech; adjure.

• halsen

From Middle English hals (“neck”), from Old Norse háls (“neck, part of the forecastle or bow of a ship”), from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”). See Etymology 1. Cognate with Danish hals (“neck, tack”).

• hawse

halse (plural halses)

1. Alternative form of hawse

halse (third-person singular simple present halses, present participle halsing, simple past and past participle halsed)

1. (obsolete) To haul; to hoist.

• helas, leash, hales, Selah, heals, Sahel, Saleh, sheal, shale, selah, Heals, Hales, Shalë

halse c

1. indefinite plural of hals

halse (imperative hals, infinitive at halse, present tense halser, past tense halsede, perfect tense har halset)

1. bark

   Hunden halser: The dog is barking

2. rush

   halse efter: rush after

• (bark): gø

halse

1. Alternative form of halsen