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helter
helter
English
Noun
helter (plural helters)
- (Northern England, obsolete) Alternative spelling of halter (rope, cord, or similar thing that fastens around the neck). [15th and 16th century]
References
- “helter” listed as a fifteenth- and sixteenth-century northern-English spelling variant of “halter, n.¹”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)