English Explanatory Dictionary

halse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The neck; the throat.
verb
  1. To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.
verb
  1. To greet; salute; hail.
  2. To beseech; adjure.
noun
  1. Alternative form of hawse.
verb
  1. To haul; to hoist.
name
  1. A small village in Greatworth and Halse parish, West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP5640).
  2. A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district and Taunton Deane district before that (OS grid ref ST1428).
  3. A surname.

Pronunciation

[hoːs] [haːs] [hoːz]

Word forms

halse halses hawse halsing halsed haulse halsh hose

Etymology

From Middle English hals, from Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *hals, from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *kols-, *ḱols- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch hals (“neck, throat”), German Hals (“neck, throat”), Norwegian hals (“neck, throat”), Swedish hals (“neck, throat”), Latin collum (“neck”).

Related words

enhalse halsen

Derived words

healsfang unhalsed Greatworth and Halse Woodford Halse
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