Halse vs Halwe - What's the difference?
halse | halwe |
(label) To fall upon the neck of; embrace.
*:
To greet; salute; hail.
To beseech; adjure.
(obsolete) To haul; to hoist.
(obsolete) A saint.
* Chaucer, ''The Canterbury Tales, Prologue, 13:14
As nouns the difference between halse and halwe
is that halse is while halwe is (obsolete) a saint.halse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hals, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) halsen, halchen, from (etyl) *.Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
(hals)- 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)Etymology 4
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(hals)Anagrams
* * * * * * ----halwe
English
Noun
(en noun)- And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes. To ferne halwes , kowthe in sondry londes.