Etymology:
A Common Germanic adj.: Old English halt, healt = Old Frisian, Old Saxon halt (Middle Dutch halt, hout, Old High German, Middle High German halz, Old Norse haltr (Swedish, Danish halt), Gothic halt-s < Old Germanic *halt-oz.(Show Less)
arch. and literary.
Lame; crippled; limping. (OED)
"When I asked Berman, who is now seventy-eight, to talk with me, he wrote that he was 'very near death' and that he saw no point in meeting: 'All you would discover is a rather halt old man in deteriorating health. What you most likely would not perceive is such a person who never in his long life intentionally injured anyone.'"
- Marc Fisher, "The master: a charismatic teacher enthralled his students. Was he abusing them?", 1 April 2013 The New Yorker
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