halver

H4A1L1V4E1R1

noun

a fisherman who places a net to catch fish in the retreating tide

“Let's go halvers on the tab tonight.”

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounhalver (plural halvers)

plural halvers

  1. a fisherman who places a net to catch fish in the retreating tide
  2. pluralplural onlysharing in halves

    Let's go halvers on the tab tonight.

    1 more example

    like a Scotch schoolboy when he finds anything, "Nae halvers and quarters--hale o' mine ain and 'nane o' my neighbour's.

    1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC

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