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hal'd

hal'd is the simple past and past participle of hale.

Meaning of hale

Verb

hale (third-person singular simple present hales, present participle haling, simple past and past participle haled)

  1. (transitive) To drag or pull, especially forcibly.
    • For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 6, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

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Questions about hal'd

What is hal'd the simple past and past participle of?
Hal'd is the simple past and past participle of hale.

Words near hal'd in the dictionary

  1. hakureis
  2. Hakusan
  3. hakwon
  4. hakwons
  5. hal
  6. hal'd
  7. hala
  8. Hala'ib
  9. halaal
  10. Halab
  11. Halabi

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