the halt

1. 1.

   (archaic) lame persons collectively

   “the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind”

   Broaderdisabled

   archaism

Questions about the halt

What does the halt mean?

the halt means "(archaic) lame persons collectively".

Is the halt a common word?

the halt is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.