[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

halt \halt\, v. i. imp.  p. p. halted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   halting.
   1. to hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease
      progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come
      to a stop; to stand still.
      1913 webster

   2. to stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to
      hesitate; to be uncertain.
      1913 webster

            how long halt ye between two opinions? --1 kings
                                                  xviii. 21.
      1913 webster
see also:
halted halting 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

halting
     adj 1: disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game
            leg" syn: crippled, halt, lame, game
     2: fragmentary or halting from emotional strain; "uttered a few
        broken words of sorrow"
see also:
crippled halt lame game 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

180 moby thesaurus words for "halting":
   latinate, ambidextrous, ambling, awkward, bad, balbutient,
   bombastic, broken, build up, bumbling, capricious, careening,
   castrated, catchy, cautious, choppy, circumspect, claudicant,
   clumsy, construct, cramped, crawling, creeping,
   creeping like snail, crippled, cumbrous, deliberate, desultory,
   deviative, disabled, disconnected, discontinuous, double,
   double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued,
   doublehearted, easy, eccentric, elephantine, emasculated, erect,
   erratic, establish, faltering, faulty, fitful, flagging,
   flickering, fluctuating, foot-dragging, forced, formal, game,
   gauche, gentle, gradual, guinde, guttering, halt, hamstrung,
   handicapped, heavy, herky-jerky, hesitant, hesitating, heteroclite,
   hobbled, hobbling, hypocritical, idle, immethodical, incapacitated,
   inconstant, indecisive, indolent, inept, inkhorn, intermittent,
   intermitting, irregular, irresolute, jerky, labored, lame, languid,
   languorous, lazy, leaden, left-handed, leisurely, limping,
   lumbering, lurching, maimed, maladroit, moderate, nonuniform,
   of two minds, patchy, poking, poky, pompous, ponderous, rambling,
   relaxed, reluctant, rough, sauntering, scrappy, sesquipedalian,
   set up, shifting, shilly-shallying, shuffling, slack, slothful,
   slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling,
   slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced,
   slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish,
   snail-paced, snaillike, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic,
   spastic, spavined, sporadic, spotty, staggering, stammering, stiff,
   stilted, strolling, stumbling, stuttering, tentative, toddling,
   tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turgid, turtlelike, uncertain,
   unequal, uneven, unhandy, unhappy, unhurried, unmethodical,
   unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady,
   unsystematic, unwieldy, vacillatory, variable, veering, waddling,
   wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly, wooden

Halting >> H Words
Halting, definition of term: Halting
halting_pag1.html