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halster
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English
Noun
halster (plural halsters)
- One who draws a barge alongside a river using a rope.
References
- James Orchard Halliwell (1846), “HALSTER”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. […], volume I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 430, column 2.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “halster”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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Swedish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish halster, perhaps ultimately related to hålla (“to hold”), the tool originally meaning something like "the holder." Cognate of Saterland Frisian halster (“bread baked on a grill”).
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halster n
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References
- halster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- halster in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- halster in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- halster in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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