To limp; move with a limping gait.
Here comes Sir Toby halting — you shall hear more; but if he had not been in drink, he would have tickled you othergates than he did.
To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
How long halt ye between two opinions?
To stop marching.
A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
The contract negotiations put a halt to operations.
From Middle English halten, from Old English healtian (“to be lame, walk with a limp”), from Proto-West Germanic *haltōn, related to *halt. English usage in the sense of 'make a halt' is from the noun...
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A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
The halt itself never achieved much importance, even with workers coming to and from the adjacent works.
Lameness; a limp.
A small railroad station, usually unstaffed or with very few staff, and with few or no facilities.
Halts were normally unstaffed, tickets being sold on the train.