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sliphalter

sliphalter is the alternative form of slip-halter.

Meaning of slip-halter

Noun

slip-halter (plural slip-halters)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.
    • Why, you whoreson rogue! where's my suit? As I hope for mercy, I am half-persuaded that this slip-halter has pawned my clothes.1659, Thomas Lodge, Robert Greene, Lady Alimony, act 4, scene 6; republished in Hazlitt, William Carew, editor, A Select Collection of Old English Plays, volume 14, New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1964

Forms of sliphalter

pluralsliphalters

Questions about sliphalter

What is sliphalter the alternative form of?
Sliphalter is the alternative form of slip-halter.

Words near sliphalter in the dictionary

  1. slipfaces
  2. slipform
  3. slipformed
  4. slipforming
  5. slipforms
  6. sliphalter
  7. sliphalters
  8. sliphead
  9. slipheads
  10. slipjoint
  11. slipjoints

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