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Haltered

Halter \Hal"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haltered (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Haltering.] To tie by the neck with a rope, strap, or halter; to put a halter on; to subject to a hangman's halter. ``A haltered neck.''
--Shak.

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haltered

vb. (en-past of: halter)

Usage examples of "haltered".

At length the two outlaws returned, leading three of the horses, which they haltered in the open glen.

Far up on the slope, in a little hollow where water ran and there was a little grass for Ranger to pick, Dale haltered him and made ready to spend the night.

They whinnied, walled their eyes and kicked, nearly braining a couple of deckhands before they could be haltered to the gunwale.

When he finally tottered out into the backyard, the Slovaks following with the caged and haltered animals, he told the troupers in the backyard, "Tiens, I twice even relit the cats' fire hoops.

He was clad only in a thin shirt and khaki-coloured haltered shorts: his feet were bare, and he was shivering all the time.

Clad only in a haltered pair of white, very short shorts, he seemed entirely unaffected by the heat or anything else, bouncing incessantly up and down on the sternsheets and having to be rescued from falling overboard a dozen times a minute.