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haltered, ppl. a.|ˈhɔːltəd| [f. halter n.1 or v.] Having a halter on; fastened with or as with a halter; fig. fettered, hampered.
1520Treat. Galaunt in Furniv. Ballads fr. MSS. I. 452 They go haltered in them as horse in the stable. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. xiii. 130 A halter'd necke, which do's the Hangman thanke, For being yare about him. 1811Byron Hints fr. Hor. 281 A halter'd heroine Johnson sought to slay—We saved Irene, but half damn'd the play. |