† halsiern.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
See quots. and halster n.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > associated shore-based personnel > [noun] > one who tows ships by rope
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1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Halsier, a term in Navigation, he that draws the Halser or Cable wherewith boats are towed along some Channel.]
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator Helciarius,..an halsier, or he which haleth and draweth a ship or barge alongst the river by a rope: also he that draweth up burthens and packes into a ship.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Alzaniere, a halsier or he that haleth a ship or barge by a rope: a halse or halsier in a ship.
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