halvers
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of halvers
1500–10; half + -er 1 + -s 3, with voicing of f by analogy with plural halves
Example Sentences
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"I'll take halvers, if you please, Captain Wetherbee."
From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John
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 Twain, Mark
The man who owned the land, I worked on halvers, sold it on the Liverpool market.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration
I was thinking, as you're a learner, it will be a long time before you can make much, and you'd be glad to go halvers with somebody.
From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Richardson, Dorothy
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 Howells, William Dean
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