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Halteres
- noun - a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging
- a woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered
- either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight
- rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading
Hammered
- verb - beat with or as if with a hammer; "hammer the metal flat"
- create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues"
- shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks; "a bowl of hammered brass"
Hammerer
- - One who works with a hammer.
Hampered
- verb - prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
- put at a disadvantage; "The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements"
Hankered
- verb - desire strongly or persistently
Happened
- verb - chance to be or do something, without intention or causation; "I happen to have just what you need!"
- come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"
- come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place without incident"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
- happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana)
Hardened
- verb -
- become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"
- cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
- made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
- made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett
- make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"
- make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"
- protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos"
- used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"
Hardener
- - One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.