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hault

hault adjective: lofty; haughty. Also the obsolete spelling of halt.

Adjective

hault (comparative more hault, superlative most hault)

  1. (obsolete) Lofty; haughty.
    • Through support of countenance proud and hault1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Ixions sonnes, who was so stout of courage and so hault,
      As that he durst on Junos love attempt to give assault.1567, Ovid, “The Twelfth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC

Also used as

hault is also the obsolete spelling of halt.

Forms of hault

Adjective
comparativemore hault
superlativemost hault
Verb
third-person singular presenthaults
present participlehaulting
past participlehaulted
pasthaulted

Origin of hault

Old French hault, French haut. See haughty.

Questions about hault

What does hault mean?
Hault means lofty; haughty.
What part of speech is hault?
Hault is an adjective.

Words near hault in the dictionary

  1. haulsed
  2. haulses
  3. haulsing
  4. haulster
  5. haulsters
  6. hault
  7. haulyard
  8. haulyards
  9. haum
  10. Haumea
  11. Haumean

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