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halse

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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8
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8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
[hoːs]
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Definition of halse

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic)The neck; the throat.
    “Well, as you know they used to hang folk by the halse for horse theft.”
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noun

  1. (archaic)The neck; the throat.
    “Well, as you know they used to hang folk by the halse for horse theft.”
  2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of hawse.

verb

  1. (dialectal)To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.
    “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”
  2. (transitive)To greet; salute; hail.
  3. (transitive)To beseech; adjure.
  4. (obsolete)To haul; to hoist.

name

  1. A small village in Greatworth and Halse parish, West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP5640).
  2. A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district and Taunton Deane district before that (OS grid ref ST1428).
  3. A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English hals, from Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *hals, from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *kols-, *ḱols- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch hals (“neck, throat”), German Hals (“neck, throat”), Norwegian hals (“neck, throat”), Swedish hals (“neck, throat”), Latin collum (“neck”).

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