haler
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of haler
First recorded in 1930–35; from Czech haléř, from Middle High German haller, variant of heller; see origin at heller 2
Example Sentences
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Army is haler & healthier than any army has ever been in any war.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He still hadn’t gone back to work, but I thought he never looked haler or heartier, or neater or spiffier.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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And it is not because of his seventy-six years, either, for a haler and heartier man never lived—until Paula started this wicked thing upon him, and began making him bread-and-milk for supper.
From The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel by Hanshew, Mary E.
"Fancy, indeed, sir; why, I never saw you looking haler."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 by Various
My father took it for forty years, and there wasn't a haler man in the country.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
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