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▪ I. halt, n.1|hɔːlt|
Also (6–7 alto, 7 alt), 8 hault.
[Orig. in phrase to make halt = Ger. halt machen, f. halt ‘hold’, holding, stoppage, stand. The German military phrase was before 1600 taken into the Romanic langs., as Sp. alto hacer, It. far alto, F. faire halte or alte, whence the Eng. forms to make alto, make alt, and finally make halt. From the military vocabulary the word passed into hunting, travelling, and general use.]
a. A temporary stoppage on a march or journey.
1591–1598 [see alto n.1]. 1622F. Markham Bk. War v. iii. §4. 171 To make stands (which some call Altoes or Hallts)..whereby the souldier may be refresht when he is weary with travell. 1623[see alt1]. a1625Earl Somerset in Cabala i. (1654) 1, I understand of some halt you made, and the Cause of it. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 10 Part of the Caravane made an halt. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 63 Without any halt by the way. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 532 To descrie the distant foe..In motion or in alt. Ibid. xi. 210 And on a Hill made alt. 1709Lond. Gaz. No. 4583/4 The Duke of Marlborough commanded an Hault. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xv. 154 Seeing them come to a halt above the island. 1868Regul. & Ord. Army §1144 On arrival at the destination, the Halt is to be sounded. 1880T. Hardy Trumpet-Major xxviii, Leaving them at halt, he proceeded rapidly onward. Mod. Here let us make a halt.
attrib.1869E. A Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 396 On the halt day the men should wash..their clothes.
b. A small railway station without the ordinary accommodation or staff, at which only local trains normally stop.
1910Offic. Guide L.N.W.R. (ed. 15) 410 Rail motor car halts at Wendlebury, Charlton, and Oddington. 1914Railway Mag. Aug. 152/2 The provision of the ‘halts’ on the new line has been much appreciated locally. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §706 Halt attendant; a porter who attends at roadside halt, where there is no proper station staff. 1973Country Life 7 June 1612/4 A halt or unstaffed stopping place where trains called only if required.
Hence ˈhaltless a., without a halt.
1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxix. 379 An unbroken ice-walk of..twenty haltless hours.
▪ II. halt, n.2
[f. halt v.1 and a.]
1. A halting or limping, a limp. arch.
1599Shakes. Pass. Pilgr. 308 A cripple soon can find a halt. [Cf. halt v.1 1, c 1374.] 1775Johnson, Halt, the act of limping; the manner of limping. 1789Brand Hist. Newcastle I. 310 note, He had a halt in walking, occasioned by a lameness in one of his legs.
2. The disease foot-rot in sheep. Obs. or local.
1750W. Ellis Mod. Husb. IV. i. 124 (E.D.S.) About Buckingham town they call [foot-rot] the halt. 1757Dyer Fleece (1807) 56 Long rains in miry winter cause the halt.
▪ III. halt, a. arch. and literary.|hɔːlt|
Forms: 1 healt, 1– halt; 3 Orm. hallte, 5 halte, 5–7 hault.
[A Com. Teut. adj.: OE. halt, healt = OFris., OS. halt (MDu. halt, hout, OHG., MHG. halz, ON. haltr (Sw., Da. halt), Goth. halt-s:—OTeut. *halt-oz.]
Lame; crippled; limping.
[a700Epinal Gloss. 589 Lurdus, laempihalt; Erf. lemphihalt.] c893K. ælfred Oros. iii. i. (1883) 96 ænne wisne mon, þeh he healt wære, se wæs haten Ageselaus. c1200Ormin 15499 Þe blinde ȝaff he wel to sen, & hallte wel to ganngenn. a1225St. Marher. 20 Nan misbilimet bern, nowðer halt ne houeret. c1340Cursor M. 20885 (Fairf.) Halt men he gaf þe fote. c1440Promp. Parv. 224/1 Halte, or crokyd, claudus. 1526–34Tindale John v. 3 Halt and wyddered, waytynge for the movynge off the wather. 1612–16W. Browne Brit. Past. i. ii. (R.), To waite upon the gout, to walke when pleases Old January hault. 1784Cowper Task i. 471 Halt, and weary of the path they tread. 1859Tennyson Guinevere 42 If a man were halt or hunch'd.
fig.1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 214 Many..made very imperfect and halt returns. 1866Lond. Rev. 3 Mar. 246/1 The case proceeds in a halt, cumbersome style.
b. Comb., as halt-footed adj.
1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. (E.E.T.S.) 176, I ne ham not maymet in handis ne in armes, thegh y be halte-footed. 1877–8Morley Crit. Misc. (1888) I. 205 Hollow and halt-footed transactions.
▪ IV. halt, v.1|hɔːlt|
Forms: 1 healtian, haltian, 5–6 halte, 6–7 hault(e, 4– halt.
[OE. haltian, healtian = OS. haltôn (MDu. halten, houten), OHG. halzên (MHG. halzen), f. halt a.]
1. intr. To be lame, walk lame, limp. arch.
c825Vesp. Psalter xvii. 46 Bearn fremðe aldadon & haltadon. c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. xi. 65 Stæppað rythe, ne healtiᵹeað leng, ac beoð hale. a1300Cursor M. 3942 All his liue þan halted he. c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 1429 (1457) It is ful hard to halten vn-espied By-fore a crepul for he kan þe craft. 1382Wyclif Gen. xxxii. 31 He forsothe haltide with the too foote. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon vii. 175 But bayarde wente haltynge. 1530Palsgr. 582/1, I haulte, I go nat upright of one of my legges or of bothe. 1607Shakes. Timon iv. i. 24 Thou cold Sciatica, Cripple our Senators, that their limbes may halt As lamely as their Manners. 1611Bible Ps. xxxviii. 17, I am ready to halt. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. (1862) 317, I am not inclined to halt before I am lame. 1780Cowper Progr. Err. 560 Halting on crutches of unequal size. 1868Helps Realmah iii. (1876) 29 He halted slightly in his walk.
†2. To cease haltingly or hesitatingly from (a way or course); to fall away. Obs.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. v. xx[ii]. (1890) 472 Hi..fram rihtum stiᵹum healtiað. a1340Hampole Psalter xvii. 49 Þai haltid fra þaire stretis. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 277 Whom the Jesuites..report to halt from his former Mahumetisme, and to incline to Gentilisme.
3. To walk unsteadily or hesitatingly; to waver, vacillate, oscillate; to remain in doubt.
Esp. in the scriptural phrase ‘to halt between two opinions’; now often associated with halt v.2
1382Wyclif 1 Kings xviii. 21 How long halt ȝe into two parties? [1611 How long halt ye between two opinions?] 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 343 Their religion halteth betwixt divers religions of the Turkes, Persians, and Christians. 1631Gouge God's Arrows ii. ii. 134 Such as halted, in some things doing that which was good, in other things that which was evill. 1875Freeman Norm. Conq. (ed. 2) III. xii. 150 No longer halting between his loyalty and his plighted oath. 1881J. Grant Cameronians I. iii. 37 The conversation halted irregularly between music and literature.
4. fig. To proceed ‘lamely’, imperfectly, or faultily; to be at fault; to be defective in logic, analogy, measure, rime, etc., as a syllogism, metaphor, or verse; not to go ‘on all fours’.
1436Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 159 Allas! oure reule halteth, hit is benome. 1548Gest Pr. Masse 108 Doo they not know that eche comparison halteth and in some matters discordeth? 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 388 That usuall verse, althoughe it hault in one syllable. 1581Mulcaster Positions iv. (1877) 22 How so euer men hault in doing of their duetie. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 339 The Lady shall say her minde freely; or the blanke Verse shall halt for't. 1678R. Barclay Apol. Quakers v. §24. 175 All Comparisons halt in some part. a1771Gray Corr. (1843) 228 Where the verse seems to halt, it is very probably occasioned by the transcriber's neglect.
†5. To fail in soundness or straightforwardness of conduct; to use shifts, play false. Obs.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. v, Yet in the truth some⁓while doth he halte. 1585Queen Elizabeth in Four C. Eng. Lett. 29, I cannot halt with you so muche as to denye that I have seen suche evident shewes of your contrarious dealings. 1600Holland Livy xxxii. xxx. 828 Some doubt and suspition they had, that their allies haulted, and were not sound of al four.
▪ V. halt, v.2|hɔːlt|
Also 7 alt.
[f. halt n.1; cf. F. halter (17th c.), Ger. halten to hold, to stop.]
1. a. intr. To make a halt; to make a temporary stoppage in a march or journey. (At first a military term only, but sometimes in later use a mere synonym of ‘stop’.)
1656Blount Glossogr., Halt, or to make an halt..to stop, stay, or make a stand or pause. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 15 Halting and advancing according to the orders. 1672T. Vent Milit. Discipl. viii. 20 note, The word Alt doth signify to make a stand, and is derived from the Dutch word Halt, which is as we say hold. 1686Abridgem. Eng. Milit. Discipl. 117 As soon as the Body is marched as far as is intended, they are to be commanded to Halt. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. xii. 265 They halted on our first approach, and never advanced afterwards. 1853C. Brontë Villette xxi, We took a walk into the country and halted for refreshment at a farm. 1854Wood Anim. Life (1855) 398, I would defy the best trained cavalry horse to have halted more instantaneously.
b. Mil. In the imperative, a word of command. Also formerly used as a command in traffic regulations and on road signs. So halt notice, halt sign. Also transf.
1796Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813) 69 The officer of the second division gives the word Wheel!..and then Halt! Dress! when the wheel is completed. 1932E. Wallace When Gangs came to London xx. 175 He caught Terry's eye and abruptly changed the subject. When they were outside: ‘What was that halt sign?’ demanded Jiggs. 1935Highway Code 21 (caption) Halt sign. 1958A. Wilson Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot ii. 153 David, recognizing the Grimm quotation as a halt sign, laughed too. 1965D. M. Devine His Own Appointed Day i. ii. 17 Left, here. Then turn right at the halt sign. 1967M. Summerton Memory of Darkness ii. 21 He had driven through a halt sign, and collided with an on-coming tanker. 1969Times 15 July 7/3 What are the advantages of the Give Way signs? Why cannot the Ministry go back to the old safer Halt notices?
2. trans. To cause to halt; to bring to a stand; to stop.
1805Lake in Owen Wellesley's Desp. 533 The flight of Holkar..induced me to halt the army. 1827H. Steuart Planter's G. (1828) 275 When the machine has got within forty or fifty yards of the place, it is proper to halt the horses.
Hence halted ppl. a., brought to a stand.
1796Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813) 15 Wheels of divisions of the squadron or line, are made on a halted, or on a moveable pivot. 1847Infantry Man. (1854) 62 Wheeling round the halted file.
▪ VI. halt
obs. 3 sing. pres. of hold v.
▪ VII. halt
obs. form of haught a. |