HALTER meaning: Headgear for controlling a horse

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word HALTER:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

halter: Merriam-Webster.com
halter, halter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
halter, halter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
halter: Collins English Dictionary
halter: Vocabulary.com
Halter, halter: Wordnik
halter, halter (top): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
halter: Wiktionary
halter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
halter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
halter: Infoplease Dictionary
Halter, halter: Dictionary.com
halter: Online Etymology Dictionary
Halter (disambiguation), Halter (horse show), Halter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Halter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
halter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
halter: Rhymezone
Halter (m), Halter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
halter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Halter: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
halter: Free Dictionary
halter: Mnemonic Dictionary
halter: Dictionary/thesaurus

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halter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

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halter: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

halter, halter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
halter: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (halter)

▸ noun:  A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.
▸ noun:  A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.
▸ noun:  A halter top.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To place a halter on.
▸ noun:  One who halts or limps; a cripple.
▸ noun:  Alternative form of haltere [(entomology) A small knobbed structure in some two-winged insects, one of a pair that are flapped rapidly and function as accelerometers to maintain stability in flight.]

Similar:

hackamore, hamper, balancer, cramp, haltere, headcollar, head collar, rein, lead, headgear, more...

Opposite:

unfasten, release, untie, loosen, unbind

Types:

lead, rope, chain, more...

Phrases:

halter top, halter tops, halter neck, marek halter, halter classes, more...

Adjectives:

long, silken, strong, red, new, breaking, short, own, white, black, cervical

Colors:

black, white, red, blue, green, more...

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