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verb

Halt v. t. (Mil.) To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment.

Halt v. i. (past & past part. halted; pres. part. halting)

To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.

To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain. "How long halt ye between two opinions?"

Halt v. i.

To walk lamely; to limp.

To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective. "The blank verse shall halt for it."

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Etymology of 'Halting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Halting" Quotes from Famous Books

... 'Jordan's stormy banks,'" Mr. Roberts said, at last, halting beside the grassy bank. "I suppose there was never a more perfect geographical ...

— Four Girls at Chautauqua • Pansy

... place where I was halting now the line of a jagged cliff seemed to cut the air, and fend off the light from its edges. You can only see such a thing from the level of the sea, and it looks very odd when you see it, as if ...

— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... what they did do. Frank anticipated their action as they suddenly moved toward him. He was as cool as a cucumber, and halting hailed them with a ...

— The Boys of Bellwood School • Frank V. Webster

... the elder woman's sneer dulled the edge of Claire's anticipations, but presently the man began to speak, and at once she felt a sense of power back of his halting words, a sudden bursting fort of bloom amid the frozen assembly that sat ice-bound, refusing to be melted by the fires of an alien enthusiasm. She could not help wondering whether he felt how hopeless it would be to force a sympathetic response from his audience. In ordinary times the Second ...

— The Blood Red Dawn • Charles Caldwell Dobie

... that everything had been done just as she would have liked to have it. To-day the house was free of the grieving, sickening smell of flowers; the last of the people had mercifully fulfilled their duty to Ida and him and had gone, leaving him the humiliation of their honest, warm-hearted words and halting ...

— Life at High Tide - Harper's Novelettes • Various

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