halse

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Pronunciation

• (Northern England) IPA: [hoːs], [haːs], [hoːz]

Noun

halse (plural halses)

1. (anatomy, archaic) The neck; the throat.

   Well, as you know they used to hang folk by the halse for horse theft.

Verb

halse (halses, present participle halsing; past and past participle halsed)

1. (obsolete) To fall upon the neck of; embrace.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:10.21?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter xxj], in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:

     soo the Kyng took a lytel hackney and but fewe felauship with him vntyl he came vnto sir Tristrams pauelione / and whanne syre Trystram sawe the Kynge / he ranne vnto hym and wold haue holden his styrope / But the kynge lepte from his hors lyghtly / and eyther halsed other in armes

Related terms

• enhalse

Verb

halse (halses, present participle halsing; past and past participle halsed)

1. (transitive) To greet; salute; hail.
2. (transitive) To beseech; adjure.

Related terms

• halsen
• halseny
• hazeney
• hazon

Noun

halse (plural halses)

1. Alternative form of hawse

Verb

halse (halses, present participle halsing; past and past participle halsed)

1. (obsolete) To haul; to hoist.

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