halter

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔltɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒltə/, /ˈhɔːltə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ), -ɒltə(ɹ)

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”).

• helter (obsolete, Northern England)

halter (plural halters)

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

   Synonyms: headstall, headpiece, (British) headcollar

2. A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.

   Synonyms: collar; see also Thesaurus:hangman's noose

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val 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. […].”

3. A halter top.

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?

• halter up

From halt +‎ -er.

halter (plural halters)

1. One who halts or limps; a cripple.

halter (plural halteres)

1. Alternative form of haltere

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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἁλτῆρες (haltêres).

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halter m (plural halters)

1. dumbbell

• “halter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from French haltère or directly from Latin haltēres, from Ancient Greek ἁλτῆρες (haltêres).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɑl.tər/

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• Hyphenation: hal‧ter

halter m (plural halters, diminutive haltertje n)

1. (weightlifting) a dumbbell or barbell

   Hyponyms: dumbbell, barbell

• halter on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

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

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

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

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.

• English: halter
• Scots: helter, heltir, hilter

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

halter

1. present tense of halte

halter m (plural halteres)

1. Alternative form of haltere

Borrowed from German Halter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxal.tɛr/
• Rhymes: -altɛr
• Syllabification: hal‧ter

halter m inan

1. holder (any object, usually oblong, used for holding any object)

• halter in silling.org

halter

1. indefinite plural of halt