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Definition of Halting

1. Adjective. Disabled in the feet or legs. "A game leg"

2. Adjective. Fragmentary or halting from emotional strain. "Uttered a few halting words of sorrow"

Definition of Halting

1. Adjective. prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of ''halt'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Halting

1. halt [v] - See also: halt

Lexicographical Neighbors of Halting

halterbroke halterbroken haltere haltered halteres haltering halterini halterinis halterkini halterkinis

halterless halterneck halternecks halters halteth halting (current term) halting problem haltingly haltingness haltings

haltless halts halurgist halurgists halurgite halurgy halutz halutzim halva halvah

Literary usage of Halting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... either for going forward or halting, by beating a ... r times twelve every day, according as they meet with water, they halting at ..."

2. U. S. Infantry Tactics: For the Instruction, Exercise, and Manœuvres of the by United States War Dept (1863)
"If the colonel should wish to deploy on the fourth division without halting the column, and to continue to march forward, he will not have markers posted, ..."

3. Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1863)
"A weak and halting Policy.—The Spirit of the War in the North.—Administration of the Civil Polity of the Southern Army.—The Quarter-master's Department. ..."

4. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet (1908)
"... a Plan for Progressive Action— halting Tactics at High Tide of Success—The Confederate Left fought a Separate Battle—General Thomas retreats—First ..."

5. Works by Washington Irving (1895)
"... and Hungry halting—A Frontier Farm-house—Arrival at the Garrison. IT was a little after one o'clock when we again resumed our weary wayfaring. ..."

6. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1903)
"All summer long, however, a line of travelers is continually moving through Meran, on their way to or from the Pass, usually halting here a day or A ..."

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