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Added 10 October 2026

halse

noun

Latin root: collum Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about halse at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

The neck; the throat.
Well, as you know they used to hang folk by the halse for horse theft.

verb

To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.

verb

To greet; salute; hail.
To beseech; adjure.

noun

Alternative form of hawse.

Origin

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”).

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