hallier

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English

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Etymology

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From hale (to pull).

Noun

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hallier (plural halliers)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of net for catching birds.
    • 1782, The Sportsman's Dictionary:
      [Y]ou must make two plain halliers to accompany the tunnel-net []
    • 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia, page 65:
      The halliers, or wings of the tunnel, must not be pitched straight, but in a sort of semicircle; and the birds, when they stop their march, will run along them to the middle, where the mouth of the tunnel is open.
    • 1897, Hugh Alexander Macpherson, A History of Fowling, page 364:
      He even adds that if the female is placed in the usual circular cage of wood, covered with cloth, and set out in the middle of a field, with a "Hallier" extended around the cage of the "Chanterelle," some males will be caught without any expenditure of trouble.

French

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Etymology

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From Picard hallot or Dutch hallot, with change of suffix.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hallier m (plural halliers)

  1. shrubbery

Further reading

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