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verb

Halve v. t. (past & past part. halved; pres. part. halving)

To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of. "So far apart their lives are thrown From the twin soul that halves their own."

(Arch.) To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.

Of a hole, match, etc., to reach or play in the same number of strokes as an opponent.

noun

Halve n. A half. (Obs.)

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"Halve" Quotes from Famous Books

... Halve, or quarter, this estimate if you will, in order to be certain of erring upon the right side, and still there remains a prodigious period during which the ancestors of the existing coral polypes have been undisturbedly at ...

— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley

... and many stories were told of this and subsequent periods to illustrate his physical prowess, such as: he once lifted up a hencoop weighing six hundred pounds and carried it off bodily; he could lift a full barrel of cider to his mouth and drink from the bung-hole; he could sink an ax-halve deeper into a log than any ...

— The Life of Abraham Lincoln • Henry Ketcham

... "He's never been cawed to the swine yet. Nor he sudna be, sae lang's I had a saxpence to halve wi' him." ...

— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

... but even bad golfers do holes in bogey now and then. In the ordinary way I was pretty certain to halve one of the nine holes with Henry, and so win the match. Both the eleventh and the seventeenth, for instance, are favourites of mine. Had I halved one of those, he would have admitted cheerfully that I had played good golf and beaten him fairly. But ...

— The Holiday Round • A. A. Milne

... did not succeed in finding his girl, although he "looked" industriously. Either the "millingnaries" did not smile upon him and his slender bank account, or they were not willing to wash the dishes and halve the financial responsibilities besides; but as the winter days slipped by, we could not help seeing that Patsy's pale face grew paler and his soft dark eyes larger and more pathetic. In spite of better care than he had ever had before, he was often kept at home by suffering all too intense for ...

— The Story of Patsy • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

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