halter

See also: Halter

English

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ), -ɒltə(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.

   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.

Derived terms

• halter neck
• halter-sack
• halter-top
• riding halter
• slip-halter
• wag-halter

 

Translations

animal's headgear

• Albanian: kapistër (sq)
• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: رْسن m (rsən)

• Armenian: կապ (hy) (kap), սանձ (hy) (sanj), պախուրց (hy) (paxurcʻ)
• Aromanian: cãpestru n
• Bulgarian: оглавник (bg) m (oglavnik)
• Catalan: cabestre (ca) m, ramal 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)
• Icelandic: múll (is) m
• Ido: haltero (io)
• Ingrian: varukset
• 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)
• Khalaj: afsâr
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: capistrum n
• Macedonian: оглав m (oglav), огламник m (oglamnik)
• Malayalam: കൊലക്കയർ (ml) (kolakkayaṟ)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• 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), جلبور (cılbur), افسار (efsar)
• 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)
• Venetan: cavesa f, caveça f, cavezha f
• Vietnamese: dây (vi), thòng lọng (vi)
• Walloon: cabasson (wa) m
• Welsh: penffrwyn m, cebystr m
• Yakut: сулар (sular)

female garment — see halter top

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?

Derived terms

• halter up

Etymology 2

From halt +‎ -er.

Noun

halter (plural halters)

1. One who halts or limps; a cripple.

Etymology 3

Noun

halter (plural halteres)

1. Alternative form of haltere

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἁλτῆρες (haltêres).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

halter m (plural halters)

1. dumbbell

Further reading

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

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɑl.tər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: hal‧ter

Noun

halter m (plural halters, diminutive haltertje n)

1. (weightlifting) a dumbbell or barbell

   Hyponyms: dumbbell, barbell

Further reading

• halter on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

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.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

halter

1. present tense of halte

Portuguese

Noun

halter m (plural halteres)

1. Alternative form of haltere

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Halter.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

halter m inan

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

Declension

Declension of halter

	singular	plural
nominative	halter	haltry
genitive	haltra	haltrōw
dative	haltrowi	haltrōm
accusative	halter	haltry
instrumental	haltrym	haltrami
locative	haltrze	haltrach
vocative	haltrze	haltry

Further reading

• halter in silling.org

Swedish

Noun

halter

1. indefinite plural of halt