# halter
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈhɔltɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɒltə/, /ˈhɔːltə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ), -ɒltə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

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.
Cognate with Scots helter (“halter”), Dutch halfter, halster (“halter”), Low German halfter, helchter, halter (“halter”), German Halfter (“halter, holster”).

#### Alternative forms

* helter (obsolete, Northern England)

#### Noun

halter (plural halters)
* A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.
    Synonyms: headstall, headpiece, (British) headcollar
* A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.
    Synonyms: collar; see also Thesaurus:hangman's noose
** 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC: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].
** 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:“ […] 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. […].”
* A halter top.

##### Derived terms

* halter neck
* halter-sack
* halter-top
* riding halter
* slip-halter
* wag-halter

##### Translations
#### Verb

halter (third-person singular simple present halters, present participle haltering, simple past and past participle haltered)
* (transitive) To place a halter on.
    What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?

##### Derived terms

* halter up

### Etymology 2

From halt +‎ -er.

#### Noun

halter (plural halters)
* One who halts or limps; a cripple.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

halter (plural halteres)
* Alternative form of haltere

### Anagrams

* relath, Hartel, lather, Hartle, thaler, Thaler, Thrale, rathel

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἁλτῆρες (haltêres).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əlˈte]
* IPA: (Valencia) [alˈteɾ]

### Noun

halter m (plural halters)
* dumbbell

### Further reading

* “halter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French haltère or directly from Latin haltēres, from Ancient Greek ἁλτῆρες (haltêres).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɦɑl.tər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: hal‧ter

### Noun

halter m (plural halters, diminutive haltertje n)
* (weightlifting) a dumbbell or barbell
    Hyponyms: dumbbell, barbell

### Further reading

* halter on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* helter, heltre, heltere, helfter, heltyr, haltre, haltur, heltrer

### Etymology

Inherited from Old English hælftre, hælfter, from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhaltər/, /ˈhɛltər/, /ˈhaltrə/

### Noun

halter (plural haltres)
* A halter; horse headgear lacking a bit.
* (rare) A rope tied in a noose for hanging.
* (rare) The binding contract of marriage.

#### Descendants

* English: halter
* Scots: helter, heltir, hilter

#### References

* “halter, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-06.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

halter
* present tense of halte

## Portuguese
### Noun

halter m (plural halteres)
* Alternative form of haltere

## Silesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Halter.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxal.tɛr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -altɛr
* Syllabification: hal‧ter

### Noun

halter m inan
* holder (any object, usually oblong, used for holding any object)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* halter in silling.org

## Swedish
### Noun

halter
* indefinite plural of halt