verb

• (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
  "Here comes Sir Toby halting — you shall hear more; but if he had not been in drink, he would have tickled you othergates than he did."
• (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
  "How long halt ye between two opinions?"
• (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.

verb

• (intransitive) To stop marching.
• (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
  "And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed."
• (transitive) To bring to a stop.
• (transitive) To cause to discontinue.
  "The contract negotiations halted operations for at least a week."

noun

• (rail transport) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
  "The halt itself never achieved much importance, even with workers coming to and from the adjacent works."

adj

• (archaic) Lame, limping.
  "It is better for the to goo halt into lyfe, then with ij. fete to be cast into hell […]"