| 单词 | halter |
| 释义 | halter (once / 2110 pages) 1nv 2n 3n A halter is a device that's put on animals to restrain, lead, or train them. Another type of halter is a skimpy summer top that is anything but restraining. Your dog might wear a halter that keeps her from pulling you down the street, and a farmer might put a halter on a cow before leading her into a milking stall. Another halter is a piece of clothing usually worn by a woman, a shirt that ties behind the neck and leaves the shoulders and arms bare. Originally, halter referred just to the tie that secures the top, but it came to mean the entire garment. WORD FAMILYhalter: haltered, halteres, haltering, halters+/halt: halted, halter, halting, halts/halting: haltingly USAGE EXAMPLES“She was on both of the relays that were ranked No. 2 right now and had her best splits of the season today,” Halter said. Seattle Times(Nov 11, 2016) Fifi likes to duck out of the halter and gallop away. Washington Times(Oct 08, 2016) Shapes varied from halter dresses with full skirts and Victorian ruffles at the neck to asymmetrical Roman-style wraps. Seattle Times(Sep 24, 2016) 1 1n rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading Syn|Hyper hackamore headgear stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head 2n a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging Syn|Hyper hangman's halter, hangman's rope, hemp, hempen necktie rope a strong line 3v hang with a halter Hyper hang, string up kill by hanging 4v prevent the progress or free movement of 2Syn|Hyper cramp, hamper, strangle bound, confine, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel place limits on (extent or access) n a woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered 3Hyper top a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips n either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight Syn|Hyper balancer, haltere wing a movable organ for flying (one of a pair) |
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