Definitions
prevent the progress or free movement of
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“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].”
““[…]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.[…].””
“What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?”
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