halster

halster (plural halsters)

1. One who draws a barge alongside a river using a rope.

• James Orchard Halliwell (1846) “HALSTER”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 430, column 2.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “halster”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• lathers, slather, relaths, Sharlet, halters, thalers, Hartels, Hartles, Thalers, Stahler, harslet, Lathers

Inherited from Old Swedish halster, perhaps ultimately related to hålla (“to hold”), the tool originally meaning something like "the holder." Cognate of Saterland Frisian halster (“bread baked on a grill”).

halster n

1. gridiron, grill

• halstra
• hålla någon på halster

• halster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• halster in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• halster in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• halster in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)