Halve vs Halse - What's the difference?
halve | halse |
To reduce to half the original amount.
To divide into two halves.
To make up half of.
* M. Arnold
(architecture) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
(label) To fall upon the neck of; embrace.
*:
To greet; salute; hail.
To beseech; adjure.
(obsolete) To haul; to hoist.
As a verb halve
is to reduce to half the original amount.As a noun halse is
.halve
English
Verb
(halv)- So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.
Anagrams
* English ergative verbs ----halse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hals, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) halsen, halchen, from (etyl) *.Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
(hals)- soo the Kyng took a lytel hackney and but fewe felauship with him vntyl he came vnto sir Tristrams pauelione / and whanne syre Trystram sawe the Kynge / he ranne vnto hym and wold haue holden his styrope / But the kynge lepte from his hors lyghtly / and eyther halsed other in armes
