halting (comparativemorehalting,superlativemosthalting)

1. Prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant;broken.

   hishalting speech

   herhalting steps

   • 1912,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.:Hodder and Stoughton,→OCLC:

     Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak ahalting English.

halting

1. presentparticiple andgerund ofhalt

halting (pluralhaltings)

1. The action of one who halts; astopping orhesitancy.
   • 1841, George Mogridge,Thoughts for the thoughtful, by old Humphrey, page167:

     But alas ! alas ! the faintings, thehaltings, the back-slidings of Christians, are enough to make us tremble while we rejoice in the hope set before us.

• (stopping, hesitancy):hiatus,moratorium,recess; see alsoThesaurus:pause

• Althing,alnight,lathing,thingal

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