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halster
halster
English
Noun
halster (plural halsters)
- One who draws a barge alongside a river using a rope.
References
- “halster” in A dictionary of archaic and provincial words, obsolete phrases, proverbs, and ancient customs, from the fourteenth century, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, published J. R. Smith, 1860.
- halster in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911