the halt

Other forms: the halts

Definitions of the halt
  1. noun
    (archaic) lame persons collectively
    “"the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind"--Luke 14:21”
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    type of:
    disabled, handicapped
    people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped
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