Belter vs Helter - What's the difference?
belter | helter |
(British, informal) Anything that is particularly good of its class.
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(British, informal) A very good-looking person.
As nouns the difference between belter and helter
is that belter is (science fiction) an inhabitant of an asteroid belt, especially that between mars and jupiter while helter is (northern england|obsolete).belter
English
Etymology 1
(en)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=When the second goal came, it was a belter - Fabregas launching an inch-perfect ball over the top for Van Persie to volley in without breaking stride.}}
Etymology 2
FromEtymology 3
.Noun
* (science fiction) A person who mines asteroids for minerals or lives in the vicinity of an asteroid belt.Anagrams
* * ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Noun
helter
English
References
* “helter]” listed as a fifteenth- and sixteenth-century northern-English spelling variant of “[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50231007 halter, n.''¹]”, listed in the ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary], second edition (1989) English obsolete forms ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==