Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fall upon the neck of; embrace.
- To greet; salute; hail.
- To beseech; adjure.
- noun An obsolete form of
hawse . - Same as
hawse . - noun The neck; the throat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To haul; to hoist.
- transitive verb obsolete To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet.
- transitive verb obsolete To adjure; to beseech; to entreat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
fall upon the neck of;embrace . - verb transitive To
greet ;salute ;hail . - verb transitive To
beseech ;adjure . - noun anatomy, archaic The
neck ; thethroat . - noun Alternative form of
hawse . - verb obsolete To haul; to hoist.
Etymologies
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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October 20th, 2006 at 4:56 pm nullfrank halse says:
Think Progress » O’Reilly on Blogosphere: ‘I’d Go in With A Hand Grenade’ 2006
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Lawson's head 'leap from its halse though it was as big as a haystack.'
Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison
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By the halse then he took him; from him fell the tears
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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So that there on her halse the hard edge begripped,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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Hot and battle-grim; he all the halse of him gripped 2690
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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Did off from his halse then a ring was all golden,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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John Oxenham, in the _Bear_ frigate, could sail "Eastwards towards Tolu, to see what store of victuals would come athwart his halse."
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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Over there by the halse o 'the pass, there stand tethered two good horses that will take us before the morning to the
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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-- Comp.: fēond -, hilde-grāp. grāpian, w. v., _to grasp, to lay hold of, to seize_: pret.sg. þæt hire wið halse heard grāpode, _that_ (the sword) _griped hard at her neck_,
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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-- Comp.: feónd -, hilde-grâp. grâpian, w. v., _to grasp, to lay hold of, to seize_: pret.sg. þät hire wið halse heard grâpode, _that_ (the sword) _griped hard at her neck_,
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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