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▪ I. † hallier1 Obs.
Also 4 halyer.
[f. hale v.1, perh. after an OF. halier, hallier: cf. sawyer.]
1. One who hales or hauls; a hauler.
1479Off. Mayor Bristol in Eng. Gilds 425 Ne soffir not the halyers to hale it all awey. 1644Prynne & Walker Fiennes' Trial 44 Cannons..might with ease have been easily drawne off, being downe the hill, and many Halliers horses ready at hand for that service.
2. Earlier form of halyard, q.v.
3. A kind of net for catching birds.
1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Call, Then place your Net, call'd a Hallier, quite round..each Part about twenty Foot distant from the Cage.
▪ II. † hallier2 Obs.
[f. hall n.1 4: cf. med.L. aulārius in same sense.]
A student in a hall at Oxford University.
1587Harrison England ii. ii. (1877) i. 87 The students also that remaine in them [Oxford hostels or halls] are called hostelers or halliers. |