halt
verbEtymology
From Middle English halt, from Old English healt, from Proto-West Germanic *halt, from Proto-Germanic *haltaz (“halt, lame”), from Proto-Indo-European *kol-d-, from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to beat, strike, cut, slash”). Cognate with Danish halt, Swedish halt.
Definitions
To limp
To limp; move with a limping gait.
- Here comes Sir Toby halting — you shall hear more; but if he had not been in drink, he would have tickled you othergates than he did.
- Do not smile at me that I boast her of, For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise, And make it halt behind her.
To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do
To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
- How long halt ye between two opinions?
To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in…
To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
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To waver.
To falter.
To stop marching.
To stop either temporarily or permanently.
To bring to a stop.
To cause to discontinue.
- The contract negotiations halted operations for at least a week.
A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
- The contract negotiations put a halt to operations.
- Without any halt they marched.
A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
- The halt itself never achieved much importance, even with workers coming to and from the adjacent works.
- The highest point on the line is at milepost 21¾, 367 ft. above sea level. Here there is a halt named Kilmakerrill, after which the line descends to Manorhamilton (24¾ miles).
Lame, limping.
- It is better for the to goo halt into lyfe, then with ij. fete to be cast into hell […]
- Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Lameness
Lameness; a limp.
A small railroad station, usually unstaffed or with very few staff, and with few or no…
A small railroad station, usually unstaffed or with very few staff, and with few or no facilities.
- Halts were normally unstaffed, tickets being sold on the train.
Acronym of hungry, angry, lonely, (or) tired.
The neighborhood
- synonymbraketo stop
- synonymdesist
- synonymstay
- synonymimmobilize
- synonymterminate
- synonymshut down
- synonymstop
- synonymmoratorium
- synonymrecess
- synonympause
- synonymendpoint
- synonymterminus
Derived
haltable, unhalted, call a halt, grind to a halt, half-halt, haltless, Sarsden Halt
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at halt. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at halt. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at halt
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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