Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A suit of hangings, tapestry, or the like, for a hall.
  • noun A Norwegian country-dance in triple rhythm.
  • noun Music for such a dance.

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Examples

  • Astro-turfing, town-halling, fabricating consumer opinion and using it to bullshit a demand we want our guns to be extra shoot-ie

    hopes and fears / what consumes me, bud caddell 2009

  • Of course, this debating and town-halling stuff is nothing more than a political ploy ...

    Hillary Invites Obama To Appear With Her At Maine Town Hall Meeting -- Will He Accept? 2009

  • One with his toes could perform on the fiddle; another could dance a Spanish halling on his knees;

    Peer Gynt 2008

  • One with his toes could perform on the fiddle; another could dance a Spanish halling on his knees;

    Peer Gynt 2008

  • Basora, and from Basora to Babylon: and we passed the most part of the way by the strength of men by halling the boat vp the riuer with a long cord.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The “spring-dance” and “halling” are characteristic peasant dances.

    Chapter IV 1917

  • He knew four dances, two spring-dances, a halling1and an old, so-called Napoleon waltz; but he had been obliged gradually to turn the halling into a schottische by taking it in different time; and in the same way a springdance had to do duty as a polka-mazurka.

    Chapter IV 1917

  • Fair and bright now was the hall within, with its long and low windows goodly glazed, a green halling on the walls of

    Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair 1895

  • Ancient withal were its adornments, and its halling was of the story of Troy, and stern and solemn looked out from it the stark woven warriors and kings, as they wended betwixt sword and shield on the highway of Fate.

    The Sundering Flood William Morris 1865

  • As for the walls of that chamber, they were hung with a marvellous halling of arras, wherein was wrought the greenwood, and there amidst in one place

    The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865

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