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wag-halters

wag-halters is the plural of wag-halter.

Meaning of wag-halter

Noun

wag-halter (plural wag-halters)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who is likely to swing in a halter; someone likely to be hanged.
    • I can tell you, I am a mad waghalter.1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, I.1

Questions about wag-halters

What is wag-halters the plural of?
Wag-halters is the plural of wag-halter.

Words near wag-halters in the dictionary

  1. wag one
  2. wag one's finger
  3. wag the dog
  4. wag-at-the-wall
  5. wag-halter
  6. wag-halters
  7. wag-on-the-wall
  8. wag-pastie
  9. wag-pasties
  10. wag-pasty
  11. wag-tail dance

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