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Hanse vs Halse - What's the difference?

hanse | halse |

As nouns the difference between hanse and halse

is that hanse is a league; a confederacy or hanse can be (architecture) that part of an elliptical or many-centred arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost while halse is .

hanse

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (in Germany ) A medieval guild of merchants or traders; especially a commercial league of Germanic towns that had a house in London.
  • (in particular) The Hanseatic League.

    • Derived terms

    * Hanseatic * Lufthansa

    See also

    * on Wikipedia

    Anagrams

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    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

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