Other Definitions halter (enc)
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Halter| Noun | 1. | halter - rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leadingharness - stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart headgear - stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head | | | 2. | halter - a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging | | | 3. | halter - a woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncoveredtop - a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips; "he stared as she buttoned her top" | | | 4. | halter - either of the club-like rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flightwing - a movable organ for flying (one of a pair) dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects - insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing | | | Verb | 1. | halter - hang with a halterstring up, hang - kill by hanging; "The murdered was hanged on Friday" | | | 2. | halter - prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperilist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries" | |
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