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Halting   /hˈɔltɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Halt  v. t.  (Mil.) To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment.


Halt  v. i.  (past & past part. halted; pres. part. halting)  
1.
To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.
2.
To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain. "How long halt ye between two opinions?"


Halt  v. i.  
1.
To walk lamely; to limp.
2.
To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective. "The blank verse shall halt for it."





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"Halting" Quotes from Famous Books



... champing bit or men moving quickly. They had gone their way into the valley. She ran swiftly, her lantern throwing its beam across the scrubby inequalities of ground, but for her there was no need of its beacon. To-night she was beyond the halting, stumbling uncertainties of tread to which man is subject. There was magic in her feet and in her hands and brain. Like the wind she ran, the wind on the great plain where there are no foot-hills to hinder its course. The black, dead trees stood out distinctly against ...
— Judith Of The Plains • Marie Manning
... letter in an uncertain halting voice, and when he had finished it the little group stared at one another for ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville • Edith Van Dyne
... Our next halting place was Esoon, which received us with the usual row, but kindly enough; and endeared itself to me by knowing the Rembwe, and not just waving the arm in the air, in any direction, and saying "Far, far plenty ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley
... halting, fumbling phrases he had slaved to acquire. "I would put the prisoners from Rahn to work at the machines, releasing citizens." There was a buzz of approval, and he added drily in English: "I'm playing politics, Evelyn." Again in the speech of Yugna he added: "And ...
— The Fifth-Dimension Tube • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... me fixedly and halting at each word—"then it is necessary that you consent to take Joseph Carpentier ...
— Strange True Stories of Louisiana • George Washington Cable


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