Definition of "halsed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of halse. (verb)

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• "But the king leapt from his horse lightly, and either halsed other in their arms."
• "AND there she welcomed him fair, and either halsed other in arms, and so she let put up his horse in the best wise, and then she unarmed him."
• "In the night came "a terrible tempest," which scattered the duke's ships "one from another, so that two of them were not in compagnie together in one place;" and when the tempest had done its work, it passed away; and the gales were fair, and the heaven was clear, when, the next day, the earl "halsed up the sayles," and came in sight of Dartmouth."