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Webster 1913 Edition
Falter
Fal′ter
,Verb.
T.
To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Fal′ter
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Faltered
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Faltering
.] 1.
To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer;
as, his tongue
. falters
With
faltering
speech and visage incomposed. Milton.
2.
To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.
“He found his legs falter.” Wiseman.
3.
To hesitate in purpose or action.
Ere her native king
Shall
Shall
falter
under foul rebellion’s arms. Shakespeare
4.
To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; – said of the mind or of thought.
Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance
falters
. I. Taylor.
Fal′ter
,Verb.
T.
To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.
And here he
faltered
forth his last farewell. Byron.
Mde me most happy,
faltering
“I am thine.” Tennyson.
Fal′ter
,Noun.
[See ]
Falter
, Verb.
I.
Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound;
as, a slight
. falter
in her voiceThe
falter
of an idle shepherd's pipe. Lowell.
Webster 1828 Edition
Falter
FAL'TER
,Verb.
I.
1.
To hesitate, fail or break in the utterance of words; to speak with a broken or trembling utterance; to stammer. His tongue falters. He speaks with a faltering tongue. He falters at the question.2.
To fail, tremble or yield in exertion; not to be firm and steady. His legs falter.3.
To fail in the regular exercise of the understanding. We observe idiots to falter.FAL'TER
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
Falter
Falter
See also: falter
German
Noun
Falter m (genitive Falters, plural Falter)
Declension
Declension of Falter
Synonyms
- Tagfalter m
- Schmetterling m
See also
- Motte f
- Nachtfalter m
- Raupe f
- Schmetterling m
- Summervogl
falter
falter
See also: Falter
English
Noun
falter (uncountable)
Translations
unsteadiness
Verb
falter (third-person singular simple present falters, present participle faltering, simple past and past participle faltered)
- To waver or be unsteady.
- Wiseman
- He found his legs falter.
- Wiseman
- (transitive, intransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
- Byron
- And here he faltered forth his last farewell.
- Milton
- With faltering speech and visage incomposed.
- Byron
- To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
- I. Taylor
- Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters.
- I. Taylor
- To stumble.
- (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
- 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter.
-
- To hesitate in purpose or action.
- Shakespeare
- Ere her native king / Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.
- Shakespeare
- To cleanse or sift, as barley.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Translations
To waver or be unsteady
To stammer — see stammer
To stumble
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References
- ↑ Etymology of falter in Online Etymology Dictionary