halse

See also: Hälse

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hoːs], [haːs], [hoːz]

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English hals, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *kols-, *ḱols- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch hals (“neck, throat”), German Hals (“neck, throat”), Norwegian hals (“neck, throat”), Swedish hals (“neck, throat”), Latin collum (“neck”).

Alternative forms

• hawse (Scotland)

Noun

halse (plural halses)

1. (anatomy, archaic) The neck; the throat.

   Well, as you know they used to hang folk by the halse for horse theft.

Derived terms

• halseman

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English halsen, halchen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English *halsian, *healsian (“to embrace”, literally “to fall upon the neck of”), from heals (“neck”). See above. Cognate with Old Saxon helsjen (“to embrace”), Old High German halsōn (German halsen (“to jibe”)), Icelandic hálsa (“to embrace”).

Alternative forms

• haulse
• halsh (dialectal)
• hawse, hose (Scotland)

Verb

1. (obsolete) To fall upon the neck of; embrace.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:
     :

     soo the Kyng took a lytel hackney and but fewe felauship with him vntyl he came vnto sir Tristrams pauelione / and whanne syre Trystram sawe the Kynge / he ranne vnto hym and wold haue holden his styrope / But the kynge lepte from his hors lyghtly / and eyther halsed other in armes

Related terms

• enhalse

Etymology 3

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English halsen, halsien (“to beseech, adjure”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English healsian, hālsian (“to entreat earnestly, beseech, implore”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hailisōną (“to greet”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *kailo-, *kailu- (“whole, safe”). Cognate with Middle High German heilsen (“to predict”), Swedish hälsa (“to greet”), Icelandic heilsa (“to salute”). More at whole, hailse.

Verb

1. (transitive) To greet; salute; hail.
2. (transitive) To beseech; adjure.

Related terms

• halsen
• halseny
• hazeney
• hazon

Etymology 4

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English hals (“neck”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse háls (“neck, part of the forecastle or bow of a ship”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”). See Etymology 1. Cognate with Danish hals (“neck, tack”).

Alternative forms

• hawse

Noun

halse (plural halses)

1. Alternative form of hawse

Verb

1. (obsolete) To haul; to hoist.

Anagrams

• Hales, Heals, Sahel, Saleh, Selah, hales, heals, leash, selah, shale, sheal

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Danish

Noun

halse c

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of hals

Verb

halse (imperative hals, infinitive at halse, present tense halser, past tense halsede, perfect tense har halset)

1. bark

   Hunden halser: The dog is barking

2. rush

   halse efter: rush after

Synonyms

• (bark): gø