halse

  1. Noun.  (anatomy, archaic) The neck; the throat.
  2. Verb.  (obsolete) To fall upon the neck of; embrace.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To greet; salute; hail.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To beseech; adjure.
  5. Noun.  (alternative form of, hawse) .

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