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halter-sick, n. and a. [prob. originating in an error for prec.] A. n. = halter-sack.
1617Minsheu Ductor, An Halter-sicke, or one that the gallowes groanes for, a knauish boy. B. adj. (Cf. death-sick.)
1820W. Tooke tr. Lucian I. 511 You..villainous, infamous halter-sick miscreant. |