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Halve vs Halwe - What's the difference?

halve | halwe |

As a verb halve

is to reduce to half the original amount.

As a noun halwe is

a saint.

halve

English

Verb

(halv)
  • To reduce to half the original amount.
  • To divide into two halves.
  • To make up half of.
  • * M. Arnold
  • So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.
  • (architecture) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
  • Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs ----

    halwe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A saint.
  • * Chaucer, ''The Canterbury Tales, Prologue, 13:14
  • And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes. To ferne halwes , kowthe in sondry londes.
    (Webster 1913)