To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet. [Obs.] Each other kissed glad And lovely halst. Spenser.
To adjure; to beseech; to entreat. [Obs.] O dere child, I halse thee, In virtue of the Holy Trinity. Chaucer.
To haul; to hoist. [Obs.]
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