halver

• Rhymes: -ɑːvə(ɹ), -ævə(ɹ)

halver (plural halvers)

1. a fisherman who places a net to catch fish in the retreating tide
2. (plural only) sharing in halves

   Let's go halvers on the tab tonight.

   • 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:

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

• Harvel

halver m or f

1. indefinite plural of halve

halver

1. imperative of halvere

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

halver

1. imperative of halvera

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

halver f

1. indefinite plural of halve
2. indefinite plural of halva (non-standard since 2012)

From Old Norse halfr, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.

halver

1. half

• Swedish: halv