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
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Army is haler & healthier than any army has ever been in any war.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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 Charles James Lever
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 Mary E. Hanshew
"And you—well, you look just the same as ever; only fuller and haler."
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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