halter

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From Middle English halter, helter, helfter, from Old English hælfter, hælftre (“halter”), from Proto-Germanic *halftrō, *halftrijaz (“harness”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“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”).

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.
A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:
  
  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 [transl. hart].
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, Lord Stranleigh Abroad^[1]:
  
  “… 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 woman's garment covering the upper chest, a halter top.

animal's headgear

Macedonian: оглав (mk) (óglav) m, огламник (mk) (óglamnik) m
Norwegian: grime (no) f
Polish: kantar (pl) m
Portuguese: cabresto (pt)
Romanian: căpăstru (ro)
Russian: узда (ru) (uzdá) f , повод (ru) (póvod) m , недоуздок (ru) (nedoúzdok) m
Spanish: cabestro (es) m
Telugu: పలుపు (te) (palupu)

female garment

halter (third-person singular simple present halters, present participle haltering, simple past and past participle haltered)

To place a halter on.

What do you mean you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?

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