different between halter vs fiador

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?lt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??lt?/
• Rhymes: -??lt?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English halter, helter, helfter, from Old English hælfter, hælftre (“halter”), from Proto-West Germanic *halftrij? (“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”).

Alternative forms

• helter (obsolete, Northern England)

Noun

halter (plural halters)

1. A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.
2. A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.
3. A halter top.

Synonyms

• headstall
• headpiece
• headcollar (British)

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To place a halter on.

   What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?

Etymology 2

halt +? -er

Noun

halter (plural halters)

1. One who halts or limps; a cripple.

Etymology 3

Noun

halter (plural halteres)

1. Alternative form of haltere

Anagrams

• Hartel, Hartle, Thrale, lather, rathel, thaler

Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (haltêres).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?l?te/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /al?te?/

Noun

halter m (plural halters)

1. dumbbell

Further reading

• “halter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• helter, heltre, heltere, helfter, heltyr, haltre, haltur

Etymology

Inherited from Old English hælftre, hælfter, from Proto-West Germanic *halftrij?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?halt?r/, /?h?lt?r/, /?haltr?/

Noun

halter (plural haltres)

1. A halter; horse headgear lacking a bit.
2. (rare) A rope tied in a noose for hanging.
3. (rare) The binding contract of marriage.

Descendants

• English: halter
• Scots: helter, hilter

References

• “halter, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-06.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

halter

1. present tense of halte

Portuguese

Noun

halter m (plural halteres)

1. Alternative form of haltere

Swedish

Noun

halter

1. indefinite plural of halt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi.?d??/

Noun

fiador (plural fiadors)

1. (South America) A collar worn by a horse, immediately behind the head, to which a handle, strap, or rope may be attached.
2. (Canada, US) In some styles of horse halter and bridle, an optional part similar to a throatlatch.

Usage notes

• In the western United States, fiador sometimes is rendered as Theodore, this rhyme reportedly in honor of Theodore Roosevelt.

References

• Segovia (1911) page 414
• Ashley Book of Knots (1944) p. 201

Anagrams

• Fiodar

Portuguese

Noun

fiador m (plural fiadores)

1. guarantor
2. surety
3. sponsor
4. guarantee

Spanish

Noun

fiador m (plural fiadores, feminine fiadora, feminine plural fiadoras)

1. fastener, retainer, toggle, catch
2. bondsman, surety, guarantor, bailor, backer
3. safety strap (for securing a sword)
4. neck collar (on a horse)
5. fastening cord (of a cape or cloak), chinstrap
6. catch, latch
7. lock tumbler
8. safety catch, rifle sear
9. gutter hook (for fastening a gutter to a building)
10. (colloquial) boy’s buttock

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:fiador.

Related terms

• fiable
• fiado
• fiadora
• fiar