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- noun Plural form of
halver .
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Examples
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Weren't you and Hal Netkin going to go halvers on a ranch in Wyoming, Wacko?
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Did you ever see a big boss that would go halvers with his men in flush times, and of his own notion pay 'em extry?
Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry
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Abbey -- "Nae halvers and quarters, -- hale o 'mine ain and nane o' my neighbours."
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry
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She moved off to a little house on ol 'miss's plantation and make a crop on halvers.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Work Projects Administration
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When the War was over, master told us that we could go out and take care of the crops already planted and plant the ones that need planting 'cause we knowed all 'bout the place and we would go halvers.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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He was a cheerful, stirnn 'cretur, always doin' somethin ', and no man can say he ever see him do anything by halvers.
Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922
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He's big enough for us to go halvers and both have plenty.
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918
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"I'll go halvers with you, Colonel," Bill proposed.
Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911
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"Stuffy" -- though one was tempted to think that he shared his fruit not so much from choice but rather because he disliked the hard work that was sure to follow a refusal of the pressing invitation to "go halvers."
Their Yesterdays Harold Bell Wright 1908
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"I'd love to go halvers with you," proposed Douglas.
Michael O'Halloran Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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