halter

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

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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[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. […].”

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?

   • 1981, James Powell, chapter 8, in The Malpais Rider (A Double D Western), Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →ISBN, page 62:

     The two Indians were finished with their own saddling, the camp gear was packed, and already the extra saddle horses and their one packhorse' were haltered so they could be led back to the ranch.

• 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).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əlˈte]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [alˈteɾ]

halter m (plural halters)

1. dumbbell

• “halter”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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 6 February 2019.

halter

1. present tense of halte

halter m (plural halteres)

1. alternative form of haltere

• “halter”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “halter”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from German Halter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxal.tɛr/

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• 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

Borrowed from French haltère, from Ancient Greek ἁλτῆρες (haltêres).

• IPA^(key): /halˈteɾ/
• Hyphenation: hal‧ter

halter (definite accusative halteri, plural halterler)

1. (weightlifting) barbell, dumbbell
2. weight

   halter kaldırmak ― to lift weights

• “halter”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “halter”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “halter”, in Nişanyan Sözlük