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▪ I. ˈbalter, v. Obs. exc. dial.
Also 7 baulter, 8–9 dial. bauter.
[prob. from ON; cf. Da. baltre, boltre to wallow, welter, tumble. See also boulter. The connexion between senses 1 and 2 and the others is not clear, but it may be either through the notion of tumbling (the hair), or of weltering.]
†1. intr. To tumble about, to dance clumsily. (Isolated later example of baltering.)
c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 103 Þay ben boþe blynde & balterande cruppelez. Ibid. C. 459 Blyþe of his wodbynde he balteres þer vnde[r]. c1440Morte Arth. (Roxb.) 66 He [the bear] baltyrde, he bleryde, He braundyschte thereafter. a1500Colkelbie Sow i. 302 (Jam.) Sum trottit..Sum balterit. 1952Auden Nones 39 The baltering torrent Shrunk to a soodling thread.
2. trans. (See quot.) dial.
1873Whitby Gloss. (E.D.S.), Bauter, to tread in a clownish manner, as an ox does the grass.
3. trans. To tangle, ‘mat’ (the hair).
1693W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 216 To baulter one's hair, complicare crines. 1879Shropsh. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Bautered, tangled, unkempt; said of hair.
4. trans. To clot or clog with anything sticky.
1601Holland Pliny xxix. ii, Filthy excrements hanging to sheeps tailes..baltered together into round pils or bals. [See balter n.]
5. intr. (for refl.) To form tangled knots or clots, to stick together by coagulation.
1601Holland Pliny xii. xvii, It [a goat's beard] baltereth and cluttereth into knots and balls.
▪ II. ˈbalter, n. dial.
[f. prec. vb.]
A clot, a coagulated lump.
Mod. Northampton dial. Batter is said to be baltered when the flour is not all mixed, but hangs together in small dry lumps which are called balters. |