HALVE
- to divide into two equal parts [v HALVED, HALVES, HALVING]
- to divide into two equal parts
- to reduce to half
- to join (two pieces of wood) by cutting from one, at the place of joining, a portion fitting to that left solid in the other
- reduce to one half halving the present cost
- share equally
- play (as a hole in golf) in the same number of strokes as one's opponent