▪ I. † hallier1 Obs.
Also 4 halyer.
[f. hale v.1, perh. after an OF. halier, hallier: cf. sawyer.]
1. One who hales or hauls; a hauler.
| 1479 Off. Mayor Bristol in Eng. Gilds 425 Ne soffir not the halyers to hale it all awey. 1644 Prynne & Walker Fiennes' Trial 44 Cannons..might with ease have been easily drawne off, being downe the hill, and many Halliers horses ready at hand for that service. |
2. Earlier form of halyard, q.v.
3. A kind of net for catching birds.
| 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Call, Then place your Net, call'd a Hallier, quite round..each Part about twenty Foot distant from the Cage. |
▪ II. † hallier2 Obs.
[f. hall n.1 4: cf. med.L. aulārius in same sense.]
A student in a hall at Oxford University.
| 1587 Harrison England ii. ii. (1877) i. 87 The students also that remaine in them [Oxford hostels or halls] are called hostelers or halliers. |