Noun: halter
| Singular | halter |
| Plural | halters; halteres |
Sample Sentences
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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]. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
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“[…]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.[…].” [1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:]
Nouns inflected like halter
great go,
great-go,
senhor,
afrancesado,
sprite halo,
shacko,
commando,
villiaco,
magic Negro,
Phnom Laang bent-toed gecko,
chacmool,
yerbal,
depressor,
bombolo,
bolivar,
bolívar,
buccinator,
boratto,
botargo,
slashed zero, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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.
2. Cognate with Scots helter (“halter”), Dutch halfter, halster (“halter”), Low German halfter, helchter, halter (“halter”), German Halfter (“halter, holster”). See: Middle English Nouns '
halter', Old English Nouns '
hælfter', German Nouns '
Halfter'.