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Halter

noun

1.

Rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading. Synonym: hackamore.

2.

A rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging. Synonyms: hangman's halter, hangman's rope, hemp, hempen necktie.

3.

A woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered.

4.

Either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight. Synonyms: balancer, haltere.

verb

(past & past part. haltered; pres. part. haltering)

1.

Hang with a halter.

2.

Prevent the progress or free movement of. Synonyms: cramp, hamper, strangle. "The imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"

Halt

adjective

1.

Disabled in the feet or legs. Synonyms: crippled, game, gimpy, halting, lame. "A game leg"

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"Halter" Quotes from Famous Books

... fifteenth from clergy and laity by consenting to drive the Jews from his realm. No share of the enormities which accompanied this expulsion can fall upon the king, for he not only suffered the fugitives to take their personal wealth with them but punished with the halter those who plundered them at sea. But the expulsion was none the less cruel. Of the sixteen thousand who preferred exile to apostasy few reached the shores of France. Many were wrecked, others robbed and flung overboard. One ...

— History of the English People, Volume II (of 8) - The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 • John Richard Green

... "Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus." No doubting now can be of avail. No moment is left for the display of conduct beyond this, which requires only decorum and a free use of the pulses to become in some degree glorious. The wretch from the lowest dregs of the people can achieve it with a halter round his neck. Cicero had that moment also to face; and when it came he was as brave as the best Englishman of them all. But of those I have named no one had an Atticus to whom it had been the privilege of his life to open his very soul, in language so charming as to ...

— Life of Cicero - Volume One • Anthony Trollope

... last, an altered man, had sued for the forgiveness which awaited him, he, Pecksniff, had rejected him in language of his own, and had remorsely stepped in between him and the least touch of natural tenderness. 'For which,' said the old man, 'if the bending of my finger would remove a halter from your ...

— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

... women. It's all plain sailing for them! Show a nobleman a coronet, or a fine estate, and you've got him, and may lead him where you like. It's the same with a tradesman. Show him some money and stir up his covetousness, and you may lead him as with a halter. And with the women it's also plain sailing. Give them finery and sweets—and you may do what you like with them. But as to the peasants—there's a long row to hoe with them! When he's at work from morn till night—sometimes ...

— The First Distiller • Leo Tolstoy

... our forbearance. The Raja's people, as soon as we left them, went about their sport after their own fashion, and brought us a fine buck antelope after breakfast. They have a bullock trained to go about the fields with them, led at a quick pace by a halter, with which the sportsman guides him, as he walks along with him by the side opposite to that facing the deer he is in pursuit of. He goes round the deer as he grazes in the field, shortening the distance at every circle till he comes within shot. ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

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