[hawlt] 
| 1. | to stop; cease moving, operating, etc., either permanently or temporarily: They halted for lunch and strolled about. |
| 2. | to cause to stop temporarily or permanently; bring to a stop: They halted operations during contract negotiations. |
| 3. | a temporary or permanent stop. |
| 4. | (used as a command to stop and stand motionless, as to marching troops or to a fleeing suspect.) |
[hawlt] | 1. | to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble. |
| 2. | to be in doubt; waver between alternatives; vacillate. |
| 3. | Archaic. to be lame; walk lamely; limp. |
| 4. | Archaic. lame; limping. |
| 5. | Archaic. lameness; a limp. |
| 6. | (used with a plural verb ) lame people, esp. severely lamed ones (usually prec. by the): the halt and the blind. |
| halt 1 (hôlt) n. A suspension of movement or progress, especially a temporary one: The car rolled to a halt when it stalled. v. halt·ed, halt·ing, halts v. tr. To cause to stop: The government hopes to halt tax fraud. v. intr. To stop; pause: The hikers halted for lunch and some rest. See Synonyms at stop. [German, sing. imperative of halten, to stop, from Middle High German, from Old High German haltan.] |
| halt 2 (hôlt) intr.v. halt·ed, halt·ing, halts
Lame; crippled. [Middle English halten, to limp, from Old English healtian.] |
Halt
lame on the feet (Gen. 32:31; Ps. 38:17). To "halt between two opinions" (1 Kings 18:21) is supposed by some to be an expression used in "allusion to birds, which hop from spray to spray, forwards and backwards." The LXX. render the expression "How long go ye lame on both knees?" The Hebrew verb rendered "halt" is used of the irregular dance ("leaped upon") around the altar (ver. 26). It indicates a lame, uncertain gait, going now in one direction, now in another, in the frenzy of wild leaping.