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▪ I. halver1|ˈhɑːvə(r)|
Also 7 halfer.
[f. halve v. + -er1.]
1. Obs. One who halves; one who has a half share in anything; a partner.
1625Bp. R. Montagu App. Cæsar ii. v. 141 If your selves and such Halfers in opinion, omnium horarum homines. 1633Terrier Tieths Swinton in N. & Q. 6th Ser. (1885) XI. 366 The inhabitants of Swinton as likewise the lands are partly Wholers and partly Halfers to the Churches or Parsonages of Wath and Mexborough. 1637Rutherford Lett. 8 Sep. (1675) 85 Enough to me..that Christ will have Joy and Sorrow Halfers of the Life of the Saints. a1787J. Brown (Haddington) Sel. Rem. (1807) 305 Christ is more than halver with me in this cleanly cross.
2. dial. and U.S. A half-share; esp. in halvers! as an exclamation claiming half of something found. Cf. half n. 7 g. Esp. in phr. do by halvers, go halvers (with).
1517Aberdeen Burgh Recds. 24 July (Spalding Cl.) Scho had ane young swyne in hawfaris betuix hir and Ellene Crippill. 1816Scott Antiq. xxiii, The beggar exclaimed, like a Scotch school-boy when he finds anything, ‘Nae halvers and quarters—hale o' mine ain, and nane of my neighbour's. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss. s.v., If the finder be quick he exclaims ‘no halfers—findee keepee, losee seekee’. 1865‘Mark Twain’ Celebr. Jumping Frog (1867) 36 No man can say he ever see him do anything by halvers. 1873J. H. Beadle Undevel. West. iv. 93 ‘I'll go halvers with him,’ shouts the conservative-looking chap. 1887S. Cheshire Gloss., Hafers..the ordinary word which is used to claim half of any treasure-trove. 1932W. Faulkner Light in August xviii. 394 Byron Bunch, that weeded another man's laidby crop, without any halvers.
¶ Pegge in Anonym. iv. xlii. (a 1796) proposes halfer as the proper form for havier ‘a castrated fallow deer’; whence in Todd and later Dicts.
▪ II. halver2
One who fishes with a halve-net or half-net.
1812Singer Agric. Dumfries 603 The halvers, or persons who claim and practise this kind of fishing. |