different between halter vs widdy

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

Etymology 1

Compare withy.

Noun

widdy (plural widdies)

1. (Scotland) A rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch.

Etymology 2

Noun

widdy (plural widdies)

1. Pronunciation spelling of widow.
   • 1877 — Gilbert & Sullivan, The Sorcerer

     I'm no saucy minx and giddy—
     Hussies such as them abound—
     But a clean and tidy widdy
     Well be-known for miles around.