halster

English

Noun

halster (plural halsters)

1. One who draws a barge alongside a river using a rope.

References

• James Orchard Halliwell (1846) “HALSTER”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 430, column 2.
• “halster”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Hartels, Hartles, Lathers, Stahler, halters, harslet, lathers, slather, thalers

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish halster. Cognate of Saterland Frisian halster (“bread baked on a grill”).

Noun

halster n

1. gridiron, grill

Declension

Declension of halster
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	halster	halstret	halster	halstren
Genitive	halsters	halstrets	halsters	halstrens

Derived terms

• halstra
• hålla någon på halster

References

• halster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• halster in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• halster in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• halster in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)