hallier

From hale (“to pull”).

hallier (plural halliers)

1. (obsolete) A kind of net for catching birds.
   • 1782, The Sportsman's Dictionary:

     [Y]ou must make two plain halliers to accompany the tunnel-net […]

   • 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia, page 65:

     The halliers, or wings of the tunnel, must not be pitched straight, but in a sort of semicircle; and the birds, when they stop their march, will run along them to the middle, where the mouth of the tunnel is open.

   • 1897, Hugh Alexander Macpherson, A History of Fowling, page 364:

     He even adds that if the female is placed in the usual circular cage of wood, covered with cloth, and set out in the middle of a field, with a "Hallier" extended around the cage of the "Chanterelle," some males will be caught without any expenditure of trouble.

From Picard hallot or Dutch hallot, with change of suffix.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /a.lje/

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hallier m (plural halliers)

1. shrubbery

• “hallier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.