halster

English

Noun

halster (plural halsters)

1. 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 Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “halster”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• lathers, slather, relaths, Sharlet, halters, thalers, Hartels, Hartles, Thalers, Stahler, harslet, Lathers

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”).

Noun

halster n

1. gridiron, grill

Declension

Declension of halster

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	halster	halsters
	definite	halstret	halstrets
plural	indefinite	halster	halsters
	definite	halstren	halstrens

Derived terms

• halstra
• hålla någon på halster

References

• “halster”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “halster”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “halster”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• halster in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)