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Rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading
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halter
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Word definitions for halter in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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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Word definitions in WordNet
n. rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading [syn: hackamore ] a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging [syn: hangman's rope , hangman's halter , hemp , hempen necktie ] a woman's ...
Usage examples of halter.
Both mules were outfitted with jaguima or hackamore halters, made of heavier braided rawhide, with a thick bozal or nose-pincher instead of a bit.
The tercel before him lay running the links of the halter through his talons, eyeing the crescent-moon shaped browpiece with interest.
The shorter one looked like an upscale Chicana, black hair and brown skin, the whole package wrapped in expensive shorts and a halter top that looked like it was under too much stress.
Tom took him by the halter and attempted to lead him to the corner feedbox and the rack of hay.
Probably in the company of little girl groupies, dressed in tiny micromini skirts and halter tops.
He turned to watch Bella--as did Tyrone-and she was something to see in her green microskirt and halter top, walking high on her cork slope-plats.
A tall thin woman in tan slacks and an oxblood leather halter that was probably as uncomfortable as a hair shirt stood up.
I brought them into the courtyard, found halters and saddlecloths, then tied them by the door, while I went into the house for my queen.
Vanessa pulled the straps of her halter neck bikini from her sun-tanned shoulders and loosened the bow that knotted the material under her breasts.
It was suddenly interrupted by the appearance of a negro in tow-cloth jacket and trowsers, a round-crowned fragment of a hat like the cap of Mercury, and mounted on the back of a ragged, wild, half-broken colt, which he managed with a rope by way of halter.
She was wearing black spandex biking pants with a Day-Glo green stripe down the leg and a matching black halter sports top and pale gray Reebok workout shoes.
The ponies stamped and whickered, straining a little at their halters, so now she went to share out the handsful of grain with the trace of salt to keep them quiet.
The girls in their short shorts and brief halters and the boys with their black Mau Mau jackets, pointed shoes, and pointed alpine hats covered with matches and decorated in front with a silver star.
They rode bareback, using only halters to guide their plunging mounts.
Clivus Capitolinus to where, at the first bend in this short and hilly track, the priests and slaughtermen waited with two flawless white bulls on spangled halters, their horns gilded and their dewlaps garlanded.