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Paltered vs Haltered - What's the difference?

paltered | haltered |

As verbs the difference between paltered and haltered

is that paltered is (palter) while haltered is (halter).

paltered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (palter)

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    palter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Romans, that have spoke the word, / And will not palter .
  • * Tennyson
    • Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, / Nor paltered with eternal God for power.
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  • * 2010 , Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
    • I would prevaricate and palter in my usual plausible way, but, this being Cambridge, such stratagems would cut no ice with my remorseless and (in my imagination) gleefully malicious interrogator, who would stare at me with gimlet eyes and say in a harsh voice that crackled with mocking laughter: ‘Excuse me, but do you even know who Lermontov is ?’
  • To trifle.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • Palter out your time in the penal statutes.
  • *1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
  • *:He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust. Why hadn't he come straight to him—whatever the mysterious document was—instead of talking it over with French featherheads?
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 100
    • Don't palter with the second rate.
  • To haggle.
    • (Cotgrave)
  • To babble; to chatter.

    • Derived terms

    * palterer

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    haltered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (halter)

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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.

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