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half-hour
The half of an hour; a period of thirty minutes. Also b. half an hour (not used with a defining word).
c1420Siege of Rouen in Collect. Lond. Cit. (Camden 1877) 15 With[in] the mount of ij halfe hourys. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. i. v, Faith, some halfe houre to seven. 1777Sheridan Trip Scarb. iii. ii, She has gone out this half-hour. 1847–8C. Knight (title) Half-hours with the Best Authors. 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 96, I have spent one delightful half-hour with him.
b.a1300Cursor M. 24742 It war not half an hore o dai. 1382Wyclif Rev. viii. 1 Silence is maad in heuen, as half an hour [Coverd. & 1611 aboute the space of halfe an houre]. 1604Commons Jrnls. I. 203/2 He..delivered [the Writ] half an Hour before Eight, at the Fleet. 1663Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 479 Till half an houre past six. 1670Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1711) 30 In half an hours time. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 56 Half an Hour after Eleven we sounded. 1882H. C. Merivale Faucit of B. II. i. xvii. 1 A country-town about half-an-hour from London.
Hence half-ˈhourly a., occurring at intervals of half an hour; lasting half an hour. half-ˈhourly adv., at intervals of half an hour, every half-hour.
1807T. Williamson Orient. Sports II. 197 Pills..given half-hourly. 1827De Quincey Murder Wks. 1862 IV. 71 His ordinary half-hourly beat. |