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Noun halter has 4 senses
- halter, hackamore - rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading
--1 is a kind of headgear
--1 is a part of harness
- hangman's rope, hangman's halter, halter, hemp, hempen necktie - a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging
--2 is a kind of rope
--2 is a part of
--2 has parts: noose, running noose, slip noose
- halter - a woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered
--3 is a kind of top
- halter, haltere, balancer - either of the club-like rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight
--4 is a kind of wing
--4 is a part of dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron
Verb halter has 2 senses
- halter - hang with a halter
--1 is one way to hang, string up
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- hamper, halter, cramp, strangle - prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperilist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
--2 is one way to restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
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