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/fˈɔltər/ Listen

verb

Falter v. t. To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. (Prov. Eng.)

Falter v. t. To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner. "And here he faltered forth his last farewell." "Mde me most happy, faltering "I am thine.""

Falter v. i. (past & past part. faltered; pres. part. faltering)

To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. "With faltering speech and visage incomposed."

To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. "He found his legs falter."

To hesitate in purpose or action. "Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms."

To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought. "Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters."

noun

Falter n. Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice. "The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe."

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"Falter" Quotes from Famous Books

... talk of this longer. Are you ready?" And not waiting for assent, I led the way back to camp without word or look; I even kept myself from putting out a helping hand when I heard the steps behind me falter and almost fall. ...

— Montlivet • Alice Prescott Smith

... of this desultory carnage, it was reported that a large force of men were entering the avenue from Regengetz Circus. Quinnox sent his chargers toward this great horde of foot-soldiers, but they did not falter as he had expected. On they swept, two or three thousand of them. At their head rode five or six officers. The foremost ...

— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... march or battle flame, In fortress and in field, Our war-cry is thy holy name, Thy love our joy and shield! And if we falter, let thy power Thy stern avenger be, And God forget us in the hour We cease ...

— Pike County Ballads and Other Poems • John Hay

... the sun, even when unable to reach it. We have so much to distract us in this world that we do not realise how truly and deeply, if not always warmly and consciously, we love Christ. But I believe that this love is the strongest principle in every regenerate soul. It may slumber for a time, it may falter, it may freeze nearly to death; but sooner or later it will declare itself as the ruling passion. You should regard all your discontent with yourself as negative devotion, for that it really is. Madame Guyon said boldly, but truly, "O mon Dieu, plutot pecheur que superbe," and that ...

— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss

... the waiting sand. To me it was like a plunge into ice water. Bill stepped on her. We ploughed out into trouble. The steering wheel bucked and jerked vainly against Bill's huge hands; we swayed like a moving-picture comic; but we forged steadily ahead. Not once did we falter. Our wheels gripped continuously. When we pulled out on the other bank I exhaled as though I, too, had lost my muffler. I believe I had held my breath the whole way across. Bill removed the blocks and ...

— The Killer • Stewart Edward White

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