Halsed vs Halved - What's the difference?
halsed | halved |
As verbs the difference between halsed and halved is that halsed is ( halse) while halved is ( halve).
halsed English
Verb
(head)
(halse)
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)
Verb
(hals)
(obsolete) To haul; to hoist.
Anagrams
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halved English
Verb
(head)
(halve)
halve English
Verb
( halv)
To reduce to half the original amount.
To divide into two halves.
To make up half of.
* M. Arnold
- So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.
(architecture) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
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