halster
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]halster (plural halsters)
- One who draws a barge alongside a river using a rope.
References
[edit]- James Orchard Halliwell (1846) “HALSTER”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 430, column 2.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “halster”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]- lathers, slather, relaths, Sharlet, halters, thalers, Hartels, Hartles, Thalers, Stahler, harslet, Lathers
Swedish
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Swedish halster, perhaps ultimately related to hålla (“to hold”), the tool originally meaning something like "the holder." Cognate of Saterland Frisian halster (“bread baked on a grill”).
Noun
[edit]halster n
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | halster | halsters |
| definite | halstret | halstrets | |
| plural | indefinite | halster | halsters |
| definite | halstren | halstrens |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- halster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- halster in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- halster in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- halster in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)