halse

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The neck; the throat.

   Well, as you know they used to hang folk by the halse for horse theft.

2. verb To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.
3. verb To greet; salute; hail.
4. verb To beseech; adjure.
5. noun Alternative form of hawse.
6. verb To haul; to hoist.

Similar words

throat halyard halseman hale heel halseny helter huckle hawse hyla halid

Often followed by

anderson and rivers et to hall was rogers a