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halter

[hawl-ter] / ˈhɔl tər /


NOUN
lasso
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The bump was on full show in the custom Atelier Prabal Gurung crop top, which the designer described as a "sculptural high-low halter top with a cascading train".

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Silva wore a long sequined gold dress with a halter neckline paired with bangles and gold pumps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Versace’s Marian halter reflected the larger shift away from institutional religion toward individual spirituality.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

So, I grabbed him by his halter and gave that talk and patted him on the nose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025

She’s wearing a halter and I hold on to it, but mostly she stays still as I swab out her nostrils and swaddle her throat in flannel.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Instead, the flies sense change with two biological gyroscopes called halteres.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2014

The Greeks probably started from a standstill and swung handheld weights, known as halteres, to provide momentum on takeoff and allow them to extend their feet farther forward on landing.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2012

If both halteres are removed, the insect loses its sense of equilibrium, goes into a spin, crashes.

From Time Magazine Archive

If these "halteres" are cut off, the fly is like an airplane lost in a cloud with all its instruments out of order.

From Time Magazine Archive

Immediately behind the wings of flies two curious knobbed organs are to be observed; these are considered to be rudimentary hinder wings by entomologists, and are called the halteres.

From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by James Weir

The volumes — evident also in boxy jackets and oversized coats — are balanced by shoulder-baring halters and crop tops.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

Now several of her neighbors raise goats, and the Cloughs can be seen walking their trio through town on halters, or on nearby Canfield Mountain just to get them in shape for the elk-packing season.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 17, 2020

Joe and the others hurried to get halters onto their horses before cutting them loose, so they could be caught and identified later.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2018

There, she grabbed her horses’ halters and ran them to a clearing, where people with horse hauling trailers waited to take them away and firefighting helicopters landed right next to the animals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2016

The reins, the halters, the blinkers, the degrading nosebags, were thrown on to the rubbish fire which was burning in the yard.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

Andrea Pfeiffer, the owner of Chocolate Horse Farms, said that one horse refused to be haltered, so she had to leave him behind.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2017

Years from now, they will be talking about how they haltered and groomed the legendary Stonestreet mare Rachel Alexandra and her beloved son Taco.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2012

He sits soulnaked, haltered in other men's finery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shall the Man of the Year now be haltered by denial of the help he asked for in his Inaugural?

From Time Magazine Archive

Billy Buck haltered the mare Nellie and led her out of the pasture.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

He flayed Foreign Minister Bonnet of France and the French press for criticizing the House's action in haltering Mr. Roosevelt.

From Time Magazine Archive

"That would be a case of haltering," returned the other, on which everybody laughed again.

From The Captain of the Polestar by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

We’ll try a little haltering for a change.”

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis

Rope halters have caused more horses to hurt or kill themselves than would pay for twice the cost of all the leather halters that have ever been needed for the purpose of haltering colts.

From A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by J. S. (John Solomon) Rarey

The directions for haltering are very complete, but to execute them with a colt or horse that paws violently, even in play, with his fore-feet, requires no common agility.

From A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by J. S. (John Solomon) Rarey


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