halter

halter

See also: Halter

English

Pronunciation

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

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• 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 [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.

Synonyms

• headstall
• headpiece
• headcollar (British)

Translations

animal's headgear

Arabic: Moroccan Arabic: رْسن‎ m (rsən) Armenian: կապ (hy) (kap), սանձ (hy) (sanj), պախուրց (hy) (paxurcʿ) Aromanian: cãpestru n Bulgarian: оглавник (bg) m (oglavnik) Catalan: cabestre (ca) m Cherokee: ᎠᎴᏫᏍᏙᏗ (alewisdodi) Cheyenne: hóxeeséeto'hamestôtse Chinese: Mandarin: 韁繩／缰绳 (zh) (jiāngshéng), 籠頭／笼头 (zh) (lóngtóu), 羈／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: אפסר‎ (he) m (afsár) 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) Jeju: 녹대 (nokdae) 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) (kolakkayaṟ) Maori: hāta Mongolian: ногт (mn) (nogt) Norwegian: Bokmål: grime m or f Nynorsk: grime f Occitan: capçana f, cabestre (oc) m Ottoman Turkish: یولار‎ (yular) Persian: پالهنگ‎ (fa) Polish: kantar (pl) m Portuguese: cabresto (pt) 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), thòng lọng (vi) Walloon: cabasson (wa) m Yakut: сулар (sular)

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.

Noun

halter (plural halteres)

1. Alternative form of haltere

Anagrams

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

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Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἁλτῆρες (haltêres).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /əlˈte/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /alˈteɾ/

Noun

halter m (plural halters)

1. dumbbell

Further reading

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

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɑl.tər/
• Hyphenation: hal‧ter

Noun

halter m (plural halters, diminutive haltertje n)

1. A dumbbell or barbell.

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Middle English

Alternative forms

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

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, heltir, 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.