| 释义 |
† halper, v. Obs.
[a. Ger. holpern (1540 in Kluge) to stumble, vacillate: see Grimm.]
To stumble, go unsteadily, go backward and forward.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden L iv, If..he is not well acquainted with the place, he goes filthely halpering, and asking cap in hand from one shop to another, where's such a house and such a signe? 1599― Lenten Stuffe 54 Hee might have tooke him at his proffer, which since he refused, and now halperd with him, as he eate up the first, so would he eate up the second. |