Halter vs Limitation - What's the difference?
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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.
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To place a halter on.
The act of limiting or the state of being limited.
A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.
An imperfection or shortcoming which limits somethings use or value.
A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought.
As nouns the difference between halter and limitation
is that 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 while limitation is the act of limiting or the state of being limited.As a verb halter
is to place a halter on.halter
English
(wikipedia halter)Etymology 1
From (etyl) halter, helter, helfter, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- 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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Synonyms
* headstall * headpiece * headcollar (British)Verb
- What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?
Etymology 2
Anagrams
* * ----limitation
English
Noun
(en noun)- Getting into his wheelchair after his amputation it felt like a limitation you could roll in.
- He understood the exam material but his fear was a limitation he could not overcome.
- ''The lawyer obtained impunity by dragging his obviously guilty client's case beyond the 10 years limitation