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HALT
Biblical
passing over; halting
Surname or Lastname
German
German : topographic name for someone who lived by pastureland, Middle High German halte ‘pasture’ or ‘stopping place’.English and North German : nickname from Middle English, Middle Low German halte ‘lame’ (Old English h(e)alt) ‘lame’.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of rope, especially the type of stout rope used in maritime applications, from Anglo-Norman French cable ‘cable’ (Late Latin capulum ‘halter’, of Arabic origin, but associated by folk etymology with Latin capere ‘to seize’).English : possibly from an Old English personal name, Ceadbeald.English : metonymic occupational name for a horseman, from Middle English cabal ‘horse’.From German Göbel (see Goebel), assimilated to the English name.
Boy/Male
English
From the hillslope estate.
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, Australian, British, English
From the Hill-slope Estate; Estate on the Hill
Biblical
rib; side; halting
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English
English : habitational name from any of the various places bearing this name, for example in Essex (Haltesteda in Domesday Book), Kent, and Leicestershire, all of which are probably named from Old English h(e)ald ‘refuge’, ‘shelter’ + stede ‘site’, or possibly Hawstead in Suffolk, which has the same origin. However, the name is now most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where it is from High Halstead in Burnley, named as the ‘site of a hall’, from Old English h(e)all ‘hall’ + stede ‘place’.English : occupational name for someone employed at ‘the hall buildings’, Middle English hallested, an ostler or cowhand, for instance.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Rib, side, halting.
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German
German : topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow or pastureland, from Middle High German halte ‘pasture’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German haltære ‘keeper’, ‘shepherd’, German Halter.English : occupational name for a maker of halters for horses and cattle, Middle English haltrere (from Old English hælftre ‘halter’).Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a halter-maker, from Middle Dutch halfter, haelter, halter ‘halter’.
Boy/Male
Biblical
Passing over, halting.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Lancashire)
English (mainly Lancashire) : habitational name from any of several places named Halton, usually from Old English h(e)alh ‘nook’, ‘hollow’ + tÅ«n ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Halton in Cheshire, however, is possibly named from an Old English hÄthel ‘heathery place’ + tÅ«n, and Halton in Northumberland from an Old English hÄw ‘look out’ + hyll ‘hill’ + tÅ«n.Irish : altered form of O’Haltahan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUltacháin ‘descendant of Ultachán’, a diminutive of Ultach ‘Ulsterman’. This is a rare Fermanagh surname, which is sometimes Anglicized as Nolan.Most English bearers of this name trace their descent from William de Halton, who was living at Halton, Lancashire, in 1346.
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Swiss German
Swiss German : topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent elm tree, Rust (Old High German ruost), or in northern Germany for someone who lived by a resting place or halt along a route, from Middle Low German ruste ‘rest’.English (chiefly East Anglia) and Scottish : nickname for someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Old English rūst ‘rust’ (from a Germanic root meaning ‘red’).
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v. i.
The act of waiting; a delay; a halt.
n.
Tricks deserving the halter; roguery.
adv.
In a halting or limping manner.
n.
To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.
n.
A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
a.
Halting or stopping in walking; lame.
imp. & p. p.
of Halt
imp. & p. p.
of Halter
n.
A rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch.
n.
A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
v. t.
To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Halt
n.
One who halts or limps; a cripple.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Halter
n.
One who moves or wears a halter; one likely to be hanged.
v. i.
To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
v. i.
A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand.
n.
A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.
v. t.
To tie by the neck with a rope, strap, or halter; to put a halter on; to subject to a hangman's halter.
n.
Stop; halt; hindrance.