halter

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  1. noun A device made of rope or leather straps that fits around the head or neck of an animal and is used to lead or secure the animal.
  2. noun A rope with a noose used for execution by hanging.
  3. noun Death or execution by hanging.
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  • This put his head against her metal halter, which was comfortable, as the halter was flexible. —  Piers Anthony - [Xanth 29] - Pet Peeve (2005)
  • You slide it up to the halter, and he can't spit the lip chain out. —  TheHorse.com News
  • I could see what the big name halter boy had meant about her neck. —  MiKael's Mania - Arabian Horses
  • Like a horse halter, the head halter holds the jaw and cheek, with […] —  NewsOK.com Blogs
  • His hands were lashed with a camel-halter, and he lay at last, in bitter silence, beside the delirious Nonconformist So Headingly was gone, and Cecil Brown was gone, and their haggard eyes were turned from one pale face to another, to know which they should lose next of that frieze of light-hearted riders who had stood out so clearly against the blue morning sky, when viewed from the deck-chairs of the Korosko_. —  A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko"
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  1. Middle English, from Old English hælftre.
  2. Latin haltēr, lead weights used in leaping exercises, from sing. of Greek haltēres, from hallesthai, to jump; see sel- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English halter; from halt, v., + -er.
  2. from Middle English halter, helter, helfter, from Anglo-Saxon hælfter, healfter, hælftre (= Middle Dutch halfter, halchter, Dutch halfter, halster = Middle Low German halter, Low German halfter, helchter, halter = Old High German halftra, Middle High German helfter, German halfter, a halter), from half-, a base appearing also, with umlaut, in Anglo-Saxon hielf, helf, English helve, a handle, and in Anglo-Saxon helma (for orig. *helfma, *helbma), English helm, a handle, tiller (see helve and helm), + suffix -ter.
  3. from halter, n.
  4. from Latin halter, from Greek ἁλτήρ, usually in plural ἁλτῆρες, weights held in the hands to give an impetus in leaping, leaping-weights, from ἅλλεσθαι, leap, = Latin satire, leap: see salient.
 

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