English

Alternative forms

• hawse (Scotland)

Noun

halse ‎(plural halses)

1. (anatomy, archaic) The neck; the throat.

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

Derived terms

• halseman

Etymology 2

From Middle English halsen, halchen, from Old English *halsian, *healsian ‎(“to embrace”, literally “to fall upon the neck of”), from heals ‎(“neck”). See above. Cognate with Old Saxon helsjen ‎(“to embrace”), Old High German halsōn (German halsen ‎(“to jibe”)), Icelandic hálsa ‎(“to embrace”).

Alternative forms

• haulse
• halsh (dialectal)
• hawse, hose (Scotland)

Verb

halse ‎(third-person singular simple present halses, present participle halsing, simple past and past participle halsed)

1. (obsolete) To fall upon the neck of; embrace.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xxj, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:

     soo the Kyng took a lytel hackney and but fewe felauship with him vntyl he came vnto sir Tristrams pauelione / and whanne syre Trystram sawe the Kynge / he ranne vnto hym and wold haue holden his styrope / But the kynge lepte from his hors lyghtly / and eyther halsed other in armes

Etymology 3

From Middle English halsen, halsien ‎(“to beseech, adjure”), from Old English healsian, hālsian ‎(“to entreat earnestly, beseech, implore”), from Proto-Germanic *hailisōną ‎(“to greet”), from Proto-Indo-European *kailo-, *kailu- ‎(“whole, safe”). Cognate with Middle High German heilsen ‎(“to predict”), Swedish hälsa ‎(“to greet”), Icelandic heilsa ‎(“to salute”). More at whole, hailse.

Verb

halse ‎(third-person singular simple present halses, present participle halsing, simple past and past participle halsed)

1. (transitive) To greet; salute; hail.
2. (transitive) To beseech; adjure.

Related terms

• halsen
• halseny
• hazeney
• hazon

Etymology 4

From Middle English hals ‎(“neck”), from Old Norse háls ‎(“neck, part of the forecastle or bow of a ship”), from Proto-Germanic *halsaz ‎(“neck”). See Etymology 1. Cognate with Danish hals ‎(“neck, tack”).

Alternative forms

• hawse

Noun

halse ‎(plural halses)

1. Alternative form of hawse

Verb

halse ‎(third-person singular simple present halses, present participle halsing, simple past and past participle halsed)

1. (obsolete) To haul; to hoist.

Anagrams

• hales
• heals
• leash
• Sahel
• Selah
• shale

Danish

Noun

halse c

1. plural indefinite of hals

Verb

halse ‎(imperative hals, infinitive at halse, present tense halser, past tense halsede, perfect tense har halset)

1. bark

   Hunden halser: The dog is barking

2. rush

   halse efter: rush after

Synonyms

• (bark): gø