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Hailse vs Halse - What's the difference?

hailse | halse |

As a verb hailse

is (lb) to greet; to salute.

As a noun halse is

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hailse

English

Verb

(hails)
  • (lb) To greet; to salute
    • (Piers Plowman)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    halse

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) hals, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy, archaic) The neck; the throat.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) halsen, halchen, from (etyl) *.

    Alternative forms

    * (l) * (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Verb

    (hals)
  • (label) To fall upon the neck of; embrace.
  • *:
    • 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

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) halsen, . More at (l), (l).

    Verb

    (hals)
  • To greet; salute; hail.
  • To beseech; adjure.
    • Related terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 4

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Verb

    (hals)
  • (obsolete) To haul; to hoist.

    • Anagrams

    * * * * * * ----