halster

English

Noun

halster (plural halsters)

One who draws a barge alongside a river using a rope.

References

James Orchard Halliwell (1846), “HALSTER”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes (in English), volume I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], OCLC 1008510154, page 430, column 2.
halster in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

Hartels, Hartles, Stahler, halters, harslet, lathers, slather, thalers

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