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Halted vs Halter - What's the difference?

halted | halter |

As verbs the difference between halted and halter

is that halted is (halt) while halter is to place a halter on.

As a noun halter is

a bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them or halter can be one who halts or limps; a cripple.

halted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (halt)
  • Anagrams

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    halt

    English

    (wikipedia halt)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . English usage in the sense of 'make a halt' is from the noun. Cognate with North Frisian (m), Swedish (m).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To limp; move with a limping gait.
  • (label) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
  • * Bible, 1 Kings xviii. 21
  • How long halt ye between two opinions?
  • (label) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To stop marching.
  • (lb) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
  • *
  • *:And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.
  • (lb) To bring to a stop.
  • (lb) To cause to discontinue.
  • :
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
  • * Clarendon
  • Without any halt they marched.
  • A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
  • Etymology 3

    (etyl) healt (verb (healtian)), from (etyl) . Cognate with Danish halt, Swedish halt.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Lame, limping.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Mark IX:
  • It is better for the to goo halt into lyfe, then with ij. fete to be cast into hell [...].
  • * Bible, Luke xiv. 21
  • Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt , and the blind.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To limp.
  • * 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
  • Do not smile at me that I boast her off,
    For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,
    And make it halt behind her.
  • To waver.
  • To falter.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) Lameness; a limp.
  • Anagrams

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    halter

    English

    (wikipedia halter)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) halter, helter, helfter, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.
  • A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.
  • *, II.12:
  • And Crates said, that love was cured with hunger, if not by time; and in him that liked not these two meanes, by the halter .
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  • A woman's garment covering the upper chest, a halter top.
  • Synonyms
    * headstall * headpiece * headcollar (British)

    Verb

  • To place a halter on.
  • What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who halts or limps; a cripple.
  • Anagrams

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