halse

Plural: halses

Noun

The neck; the throat.
Alternative form of hawse.

Verb

To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.
To greet; salute; hail.
To beseech; adjure.
To haul; to hoist.

Examples

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

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English hals, from Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *hals, from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *kols-, *ḱols- (“neck”).
Cognate with Dutch hals (“neck, throat”), German Hals (“neck, throat”), Norwegian hals (“neck, throat”), Swedish hals (“neck, throat”), Latin collum (“neck”).

Scrabble Score: 8

halse: not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionary
halse: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
halse: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 0

halse: not valid in Words With Friends