out-half

noun

By the end of July they were knocking out half of them, and the rate was improving by the hour.

One name that keeps popping up is Peter Schweizer of the Hoover Institution and someone who helped out half-Gov.

In fact, when Henry had thinned out half a row he had quite a little pile of eatable carrots, each as large as his thumb.

Mr Heatherstone came out half dressed, and with horror on his countenance.

The value of a thing is what it will fetch, no doubt, and yet that is a doctrine which metes out half-justice only.

With his cry there broke out half a dozen others, and the men rushed up to him with frightened faces.

So closely is the scriptural warning fulfilled, that "bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days."

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