halter

See also: Halter

English

From Middle English halter, helter, helfter, from Old English hælfter, hælftre (“halter”), from Proto-Germanic *halftrō, *halftrijaz (“harness”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), equivalent to half- +‎ -ter. Cognate with Scots helter (“halter”), Dutch halfter, halster (“halter”), Low German halfter, helchter, halter (“halter”), German Halfter (“halter, holster”).

halter (plural halters)

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.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  , 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 [transl. hart].
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
  “ […] No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. […].”
A woman's garment covering the upper chest, a halter top.

animal's headgear

Armenian: կապ (hy) (kap), սանձ (hy) (sanj), պախուրց (hy) (paxurcʿ)
Aromanian: cãpestru n
Bulgarian: оглавник m (oglavnik)
Catalan: cabestre (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎠᎴᏫᏍᏙᏗ (alewisdodi)
Cheyenne: hóxeeséeto'hamestôtse
Chinese:
Mandarin: 韁繩 (zh), 缰绳 (zh) (jiāngshéng), 籠頭 (zh), 笼头 (zh) (lóngtóu), 羈 (zh), 羁 (zh) (jī)
Czech: ohlávka f
Dutch: halster (nl) m, n
Esperanto: kolbrido
Estonian: päitsed, päitserihm
Finnish: riimu (fi), tallipäitset, päitset
French: licou (fr) m, licol (fr) m, chevêtre (fr) m (archaic)
Friulian: cjavece f, cjaviestri m
Galician: trenla (gl) f, xácoma f, ronzal m, ramal m, cabresto m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Halfter (de) n
Greek: καπίστρι (el) n (kapístri)
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: kötőfék (hu)
Ido: haltero (io)
Irish: adhastar m
Italian: capestro (it) m, cavezza f
Japanese: 頭絡 (ja) (とうらく, tōraku), 鼻綱 (はなづな, hanazuna), 無口 (ja) (むくち, mukuchi)

Kannada: ನೇಣು (kn) (nēṇu)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Latin: capistrum n
Macedonian: оглав m (oglav), огламник m (oglamnik)
Malayalam: കൊലക്കയർ (ml) (kolakkayar)
Maori: hāta
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: grime m, f

Nynorsk: grime f
Occitan: capçana f, cabestre (oc) m
Persian: پالهنگ‎‎ (fa)
Polish: kantar (pl) m
Portuguese: cabresto m
Punjabi: ਧਲਿਆਰਾ (dhaliārā)
Romanian: căpăstru (ro) n
Russian: узда́ (ru) f (uzdá), по́вод (ru) m (póvod), недоу́здок (ru) m (nedoúzdok)
Scottish Gaelic: aghastar
Spanish: cabestro (es) m
Swedish: grimma (sv) c
Telugu: పలుపు (te) (palupu)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: yular (tr)
Venetian: cavesa f, caveça f, cavezha f
Vietnamese: dây (vi), dây thòng lọng

female garment

halter (third-person singular simple present halters, present participle haltering, simple past and past participle haltered)

(transitive) To place a halter on.
What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?

halter (plural halters)

halter

halter m (plural halteres)

halter

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