In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
HALSE
Etymology 1
Noun
halse (plural halses)
(anatomy, archaic) The neck; the throat.
Etymology 2
Verb
halse (third-person singular simple present halses, present participle halsing, simple past and past participle halsed)
(obsolete) To fall upon the neck of; embrace.
Etymology 3
Verb
halse (third-person singular simple present halses, present participle halsing, simple past and past participle halsed)
(transitive) To greet; salute; hail.
(transitive) To beseech; adjure.
Etymology 4
Noun
halse (plural halses)
Alternative form of hawse
Verb
halse (third-person singular simple present halses, present participle halsing, simple past and past participle halsed)
(obsolete) To haul; to hoist.
Anagrams
• Hales, Heals, Sahel, Saleh, Selah, hales, heals, leash, selah, shale, sheal
Source: Wiktionary
Halse, v. t. Etym: [AS. healsian.]
1. To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet. [Obs.] Each other kissed glad And lovely halst. Spenser.
2. To adjure; to beseech; to entreat. [Obs.] O dere child, I halse thee, In virtue of the Holy Trinity. Chaucer.
Halse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Halsed (hlst); p. pr. & vb. n. Halsing.] Etym: [Cf. Hawser.]
Definition: To haul; to hoist. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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