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, Stahler, halters, harslet, lathers, slather, thalers