halvers
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of halvers
1500–10; half + -er 1 + -s 3, with voicing of f by analogy with plural halves
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She moved off to a little house on ol' miss's plantation and make a crop on halvers.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 by Work Projects Administration
He's big enough for us to go halvers and both have plenty.
From Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know by Asa Don Dickinson
He was a cheerful, stirnn' cretur, always doin' somethin', and no man can say he ever see him do anything by halvers.
From Sketches New and Old, Part 2. by Mark Twain
Us picked cotton after dat and den I rents a place on de halvers for five year and after sev'ral years I buys eighty acres of land.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration
Tell you 'nuther thing she 'll do, Mebbe you won't think it 's true, But if she 's jest got a dime She 'll go halvers ever' time.
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by William Dean Howells
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