Haltest vs Halest - What's the difference?

haltest | halest |

As a verb haltest

is (archaic) (halt).

As an adjective halest is

(hale).

haltest

English

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (halt)

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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

* English ergative verbs ----

halest
English

Adjective
(head)
(hale)

Anagrams
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hale
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Noun
(-)
(archaic) Health, welfare.

* Spenser

All heedless of his dearest hale .

Etymology 2
Representing a Northern dialectal form of (etyl) .
Adjective
(er)
Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.

* Jonathan Swift

Last year we thought him strong and hale .

* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)

"Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."

"Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"

Antonyms
* unhale
Usage notes
* Now rather uncommon, except in the stock phrase "hale and hearty".
Etymology 3
From (etyl) halen, from (etyl) haler, from (etyl) ‘upright beam on a loom’). Doublet of (l).
Verb
(hal)
To drag, pull, especially forcibly.

* , II.6:

For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.

* 1820 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), , :

The wingless, crawling hours, one among whom / As some dark Priest hales the reluctant victim / Shall drag thee, cruel King, to kiss the blood.

*

He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance..

* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), (A Place of Greater Safety) , Harper Perennial, 2007, page 262:

They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.

Anagrams
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