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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A suspension of movement or progress, especially a temporary one: The car rolled to a halt when it stalled.
2. v. To cause to stop: The government hopes to halt tax fraud.
3. v. To stop; pause: The hikers halted for lunch and some rest. See Synonyms at stop.
4. v. To proceed or act with uncertainty or indecision; waver.
5. v. To be defective or proceed poorly, as in the development of an argument in logic or in the rhythmic structure of verse.
6. v. To limp or hobble.
7. adj. Archaic Lame; crippled.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Lame; not able to walk without limping.
2. To limp; move with a limping gait.
3. To stand in doubt; hesitate; linger; delay.
4. To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection of ideas, or in measure or versification: as, a halting metaphor; a halting sonnet.
5. n. The act of limping; lameness; a defect in gait.
6. n. A disease in sheep.
7. n. A stop; a suspension of progress in walking, riding, or going in any manner, and especially in marching.
8. To stop in walking or going; cease to advance; stop for a longer or shorter time on a march, as a body of troops.
9. To bring to a stand; cause to cease marching: as, the general halted his troops.
10. A Middle English contraction of haldeth, equivalent to holdeth, third person singular of the present indicative of hold.

Wiktionary

1. adj. archaic Lame, limping.
2. v. To limp.
3. v. To waver.
4. v. To falter.
5. n. dated Lameness; a limp.
6. v. intransitive To stop marching.
7. v. intransitive To stop either temporarily or permanently.
8. v. transitive To bring to a stop.
9. v. transitive To cause to discontinue.
10. n. A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
11. n. A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. obsolete 3d pers. sing. pres. of hold, contraction for holdeth.
2. n. A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress.
3. v. To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.
4. v. To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain.
5. v. (Mil.) To cause to cease marching; to stop.
6. adj. Halting or stopping in walking; lame.
7. n. The act of limping; lameness.
8. v. To walk lamely; to limp.
9. v. To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. stop the flow of a liquid
2. v. come to a halt, stop moving
3. n. the state of inactivity following an interruption
4. v. stop from happening or developing
5. n. an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement
6. v. cause to stop
7. adj. disabled in the feet or legs
8. n. the event of something ending