[hoːs], [haːs], [hoːz]
OriginFrom Middle English hals, from Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *hals, from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *kols-, *ḱols- (“neck”).
Cognate with Dutch hals (“neck, throat”), German Hals (“neck, throat”), Norwegian hals (“neck, throat”), Swedish hals (“neck, throat”), Latin collum (“neck”).
- archaicThe neck; the throat.
“Well, as you know they used to hang folk by the halse for horse theft.”
- dialectalTo fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.
“soo the Kyng took a lytel hackney and but fewe felauship with him vntyl he came vnto sir Tristrams pauelione / and whanne syre Trystram sawe the Kynge / he ranne vnto hym and wold haue holden his styr”
- transitiveTo greet; salute; hail.
- transitiveTo beseech; adjure.
- obsoleteTo haul; to hoist.
- A small village in Greatworth and Halse parish, West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP5640).
- A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district and Taunton Deane district before that (OS grid ref ST1428).
- A surname.
Formshalses(plural) · hawse(alternative) · halses(present, singular, third-person) · halsing(participle, present) · halsed(participle, past) · halsed(past) · haulse(alternative) · halsh(alternative) · hose(alternative)
Source: Wiktionary