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Definitions: Halter |
HalterNoun1. Rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading. 2. A woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered. 3. Either of the club-like rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight. Verb1. Hang with a halter. 2. Prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "halter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream that you put a halter on a young horse, shows that you will manage a very prosperous and clean business. Love matters will shape themselves to suit you. To see other things haltered, denotes that fortune will be withheld from you for a while. You will win it, but with much toil. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Halter A Bridport dagger (q.v.). St. Johnstone's tippet. Halter or rather ~~~Halster. Halster. A rope for the neck or halse, as a horse's halter. (Anglo-Saxon, hals, the neck; but there is also the word hælfter, a halter.) "A thievisher knave is not on live, more filching, no more false; Many a truer man than he has hanged up by the halse [neck]." Gammer Gurton. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: HalterSynonyms: balancer (n), hackamore (n), haltere (n), cramp (v), hamper (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Connection | Fastener, fastening, tie; ligament, ligature; strap; tackle, rigging; standing rigging, running rigging; traces, harness; yoke; band ribband, bandage; brace, roller, fillet; inkle; with, withe, withy; thong, braid; girder, tiebeam; girth, girdle, cestus, garter, halter, noose, lasso, surcingle, knot, running knot; cabestro, cinch, lariat, legadero, oxreim; suspenders. |
Danger | At stake, in question; precarious, critical, ticklish; slippery, slippy; hanging by a thread; Verb: with a halter round one's neck; between the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fires; on the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a precipice, on the edge of a volcano; in the lion's den, on slippery ground, under fire; not out of the wood. |
Disrepute | Verb: be inglorious; Adjective: incur disgrace; Noun: have a bad name, earn a bad name; put a halter round one's neck, wear a halter round one's neck; disgrace oneself, expose oneself. |
Prison | Yoke, collar, halter, harness; muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle; rein, reins; bearing rein; martingale; leading string; tether, picket, band, guy, chain; cord; (fastening); cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons. |
Scourge | Scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Halter |
| English words defined with "halter": alula ♦ blinder, blinker ♦ calypter ♦ Haltered, Haltering, hangman's halter ♦ Ropery ♦ Throatlatch ♦ Wag-halter, Widdy, winker. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "halter": Anodyne Necklace, As well as ♦ But ♦ Donkey ♦ EVIL ♦ Grève ♦ Johnstone's Tippet ♦ Nor ♦ Or ♦ Save. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "halter": Capistrate, Capstan ♦ hackamore ♦ Wag-halter. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Halter" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (bracket, garter, handle, holder, owner), Turkish (barbell, dumb bell). |
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Screenplays | A marriage is made to be broken The ring you wear is a horseshoe token The bonds you forge at the altar Are really a yoke and a halter. (Dimboola; writing credit: John Hibberd) | |
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George Herbert | Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged. |
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| "Halter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.55% of the time. "Halter" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.55% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.45% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 55 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "halter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Halter | Last name | 2,000 | 7,026 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Friede Goldman Halter Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "halter": dress with a halter top ♦ hangman's halter ♦ Latigo halter ♦ put a halter on. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "halter": halter-broke, halter-neck, halter-necked, Halter-sack, halter-top, halter-tops. | |
Ending with "halter": pre-halter, Wag-halter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
halter top | 733 |
halter | 293 |
halter dress | 187 |
halter horse | 104 |
halter tankini | 53 |
halter bikini | 52 |
halter swimsuit | 49 |
rope halter | 49 |
halter bra | 40 |
show halter | 35 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "halter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vdekje në litar, litar për varje, lak (lasso, loop, mesh, necklace, noose, slipknot, tag, thong, trap), kapistër (bridle, headstall, rein, reins, snaffle), i vë kapistër kalit. (various references) | |
Arabic | حبل المشنقة (rope, string), صديرة نسائية, الموت شنقا, رسن (rein). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | оглавник (headgear, headstall), обесване (gibbet, hanging), обесвам (be hanged, gibbet, scrag, string up, suspend, swing, turn off), закачам въже около шията на, завързвам с въже (lariat, reeve, rope, rope up), примка (deadfall, game, loop, mesh, noose, snare, trap), повод (cause, ground, handle, motive, occasion, peg, reason, rein, room, signal, subject). (various references) | |
Chinese | 羈 (restrain). (various references) | |
Czech | oprátka (noose), ohlávka (headstall, snaffle). (various references) | |
Danish | tøjrslag (tether, tie, tying), tøjr (tether, tie, tying), grime (tether, tie, tying). (various references) | |
Dutch | tuierketting (tether, tie, tying), ketting (cascade, chain, tether, tie, tying, warp). (various references) | |
Farsi | پالهنگ , مهار (Stay), تسمه (Bail, Belt, Hoop, Lash, Ribbon, Strop, Thong), طناب چوبه دار, افسارکردن (Rein, Tackle, Tether), افسار (Bridle, Rein, Tether). (various references) | |
Finnish | hirttonuora, riimu (headstall), päitset (headstall), marhaminta. (various references) | |
French | pendaison (hang, hanging), licou, corde de pendaison, collier, boiteux (halt, halting), attache. (various references) | |
German | Schlinge (ansa, gin, guelder rose, loop, mesh, noose, sling, snare, snarl, snowball), Halfter (holster). (various references) | |
Greek | καπίστρι, σκοινί κρεμάλασ, σχοινί (belay, cable, chain, cord, cordage, line, rope), πρόσδεση (affixture, binding, fastening, lashing, stowing, tether, tie, tying, tying-up). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לולאת תלי" (noose). (various references) | |
Hungarian | akasztófakötél (hemp, rope). (various references) | |
Indonesian | jerat (lasso, noose, trap). (various references) | |
Italian | cavezza, capestro (skein), attacco (access, aggression, assault, attachment, attack, base, binding, bonding, bout, branching off, cap, connection, connexion, etching, fastening, fit, hitch, hitching, igniter, ignition tablet, ignitor, junction, linkage, offense, onfall, onset, paroxysm, periodic onset, seizure, spasm, team, tether, thrust, tie, turn, tying). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鼻綱 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はなづな. (various references) | |
Manx | opsag, mwing-jeear, holter, eiystyr (horse collar, lunge, tether, tie for animal). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alterhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prender com corda (rope), orelha (auris, drain, ear, lug, tether, tie, tying), mancar (cripple, dot matrix printer, hitch a ride, hobble, lame, limper), ligação (assembly, attachment, binding, bond, bonding, call, catenation, coherence, coherency, conduit, connection, connexion, contact, coupling, cufflink, deligation, engagement, fitting, hook-up, intercourse, interstage link, interswitch link, jamming, joint, junction, lead, liaison, ligation, link, linkage, linking, locking, MAC connection, nexus, slide, tag, tether, tie, touch, tying, union), enforcamento (gallows, gibbet, hanging), encabrestar, corda (cable laid, cable laid rope, chord, chorda, clothes line, cord, garden line, gimp, guy, hackle, heavy cord, line, planting cord, planting line, rope, small laid cord, spring, string, tendon, tie, twine), colete (cardigan (ladies), collect, Jersey, vest, waistcoat), cabresto (collar, tether, tether cable), cabeçada (bridle, butt, headband, header). (various references) | |
Romanian | spânzurãtoare (gallows, gibbet), spânzura (hang, scrag), pune cãpãstru, moarte prin spânzurãtoare (rope), funie (cord, line, rope, tie), cãpãstru (bridle), ştreang (noose, tug). (various references) | |
Russian | недоуздок (headstall). (various references) | |
Scottish | taod (a halter, binding, cable, hair rope), adhastar. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ular (horse collar), povodac (guide rope, guy, lead, leading strings, leash). (various references) | |
Spanish | cabestro. (various references) | |
Swedish | snara (ensnare, entrap, gin, hook, loop, noose, snare, springe, trap), grimma. (various references) | |
Turkish | yular takmak, yular (bridle, headgear, headstall), kement (lariat, lasso, longe, noose, rope), ipe çekmek (hang, string up, truss), ipe çekme (gallows, hanging, rope), ip (cord, lanyard, lap, rope, string, tether, tightrope, twist), boyundan bağlı bluz (halterneck), asmak (bunk, drape, drape over, gibbet, hang, hang on, hang out, hang up, neglect, play hooky, post, post up, skip, skive off, sling, string up, suspend, swing, truss, wag), asma (grapevine, hanging, overhead, suspended, suspension, vine). (various references) | |
Turkmen | nogta (halter (for a horse)). (various references) | |
Ukranian | вішати (gibbet, hang, suspend), вішальник, недоуздок (headpiece), надівати недоуздок, зашморг, приборкувати (chasten, check, curb, harness, mortify, refrain). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dây thòng lọng sự chết treo. (various references) | |
Welsh | tennyn (cord, rope), penffrwyn (head-stall), cebystr (tether). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ekiri. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | capistrum, habenae, habenas, laquei, laqueis, laqueo, laqueum. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | capulum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "halter": halterbreak, halterbreaking, halterbreaks, halterbroke, halterbroken, haltere, haltered, halteres, haltering, halters. (additional references) | |
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"Halter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hafler, Halata, halber, halfterm, halitr, haller, Halpert, halser, halte, haltier, hanter, hapter, haster, hatle, hatler, haulter, hauter, hayter, Healter, Hellte, Heltai, hilte, Hiltler, Holte, holter, Hultberg, hvaler, malter, Valtre. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "halter" (pronounced hô"lter) |
| 4 | -ô" l t er | altar, alter, falter, psalter, Salter. |
| 3 | -l t er | belter, Bolter, Colter, Coulter, filter, kelter, kilter, molter, Poulter, Quilter, Realtor, shelter, skelter, smelter, swelter, welter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lather, thaler. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: alert, alter, artel, earth, haler, hater, heart, later, lathe, ratel, rathe, taler. | |
-2 letters: earl, eath, haet, hale, halt, hare, harl, hart, hate, heal, hear, heat, herl, late, lath, lear, lehr, rale, rate, rath, real, rhea, tael, tahr, tale, tare, teal, tear, tela, thae. | |
-3 letters: ale, alt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, eta, eth, hae, hat, her, het, lar, lat, lea, let, rah, rat, ret, tae, tar, tea, tel, the. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, al, ar, at, eh, el, er, et, ha, he, la, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: blather, earthly, enthral, halbert, haltere, halters, harslet, lathers, lathery, lathier, leather, loather, rathole, slather, thalers, thermal, trachle, trehala. | |
+2 letters: aerolith, antheral, blathers, chelator, chlorate, earthily, enthrall, enthrals, ethereal, fatherly, halberts, haltered, halteres, harslets, heartily, lathered, latherer, laughter, leathern, leathers, leathery, lethargy, litharge, loathers, plethora, ratholes, slathers, thermals, thirlage, thralled, tracheal, trachled, trachles, trauchle, trehalas, trochlea, urethral. | |
+3 letters: aeroliths, allethrin, betrothal, blathered, blatherer, branchlet, breathily, cartwheel, cathedral, charlotte, chelators, chlorates, clathrate, earthlier, earthlike, earthling, enthralls, ghastlier, hairstyle, haltering, healthier, heartfelt, heartland, heartless, hemelytra, herbalist, heretical, heritable, horsetail, larghetto, latherers, lathering, laughters, leathered, lethargic, litharges, plethoras, slathered, slaughter, teacherly, telegraph, theriacal, thermally, thesaural, thirlages, tracheole, trailhead, trauchled, trauchles, trehalose, trihedral, trochleae, trochlear, trochleas, ultraheat, unearthly, wealthier, weatherly. | |
+4 letters: adherently, allethrins, altogether, archetypal, betrothals, birthplace, blackheart, blatherers, blathering, branchlets, breathable, breathless, cartwheels, cathedrals, charitable, charlottes, chlorinate, clathrates, disenthral, earthliest, earthlight, earthlings, enthralled, ethereally, exhilarate, exothermal, fatherland, fatherless, fatherlike, flycatcher, geothermal, grapholect, hairstyles, harlotries, heartlands, heliolatry, heptachlor, herbalists, hermetical, hilarities, hinterland, horsetails, hypaethral, hyperalert, hysterical, inthralled, isothermal, largemouth, larghettos, leathering, lethargies, letterhead, lighterage, methylator, motherland, nonthermal, octahedral, orchestral, orthoclase, phylactery, preethical, rhetorical, saltshaker, shmaltzier, shrievalty, slathering, slaughters, sphalerite, stealthier, telegraphs, telegraphy, tetherball, theatrical, thermalize, theurgical, thimerosal, threadless, threadlike, tracheolar, tracheoles, trailheads, trehaloses, triathlete, trihedrals, trochlears, turtlehead, ultrafiche, ultraheats, ultraheavy, waterwheel, wraithlike. | |
+5 letters: abhorrently, altogethers, antheridial, birthplaces, blackhearts, blameworthy, bleacherite, cartwheeled, cartwheeler, chanterelle, chanticleer, chiralities, chlorinated, chlorinates, chocolatier, coldhearted, diphtherial, disenthrall, disenthrals, earthlights, earthliness, enthralling, erythrismal, establisher, ethereality, etherealize, eurythermal, exhilarated, exhilarates, farthingale, fatherlands, featherless, flycatchers, grapholects, halfhearted, halterbreak, halterbroke, harvestable, heartlessly, heartsomely, heptachlors, heretically, hinterlands, hortatively, hydrolysate, hydrolyzate, hydroxylate, hypocentral, hypothermal, inheritable, intrathecal, lamplighter, largemouths, leatherback, leatherette, leatherleaf, leatherlike, leatherneck, leatherwood, letterheads, lighterages, lionhearted, lycanthrope, methylators, motherlands, neanderthal, nightwalker, orthoclases, pamphleteer, pentahedral, perchlorate, perithecial, phalanstery, platyrrhine, prophetical, purpleheart, rathskeller, reestablish, saltshakers, schmaltzier, searchlight, shinplaster, slaughtered, slaughterer, sphalerites, spheroplast, spirochetal, stadtholder, stakeholder, stallholder, stretchable, tarnishable, telegraphed, telegrapher, telegraphic, tetherballs, tetrahedral, thankfuller, theatricals, theoretical, therewithal, thermalized, thermalizes, thermically, thimerosals, thunderclap, trenchantly, triathletes, turtleheads, ultrafiches, ultraheated, unhealthier, waterwheels, wherewithal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 6C 74 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- .-.. - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101100 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a l t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 006C 0074 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)426778867184 |
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