halve

• POS: Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

halve, n. 

 A half.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

halve, v. t. [From Half.].

•  To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of.  [1913 Webster]

  "So far apart their lives are thrown
  From the twin soul that halves their own."  [1913 Webster]
•  To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.  [1913 Webster]
•  Of a hole, match, etc., to reach or play in the same number of strokes as an opponent.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

halve, v.tr.
1 divide into two halves or parts.
2 reduce by half.
3 share equally (with another person etc.).
4 Golf use the same number of strokes as one's opponent in (a hole or match).
5 fit (crossing timbers) together by cutting out half the thickness of each.

Etymology

ME halfen f. HALF

THESAURUS

halve

amputate, apportion, ax, be partners in, bifurcate, bisect, branch, butcher, by two, carve, chop, cleave, cooperate, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, dichotomize, dimidiate, dissever, divide, divide with, divvy up with, excise, fission, fissure, fork, gash, go even stephen, go fifty-fifty, go halvers, go halves, go shares, hack, hew, in half, incise, jigsaw, lance, pare, prune, ramify, rend, rive, saw, scissor, sever, share, share in, slash, slice, slit, snip, split, split in two, split the difference, subdivide, sunder, tear, transect, whittle

ROGET THESAURUS

halve

bisection

VB bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave dimidiate, dichotomize, go halves, divide with, separate, fork, bifurcate, branch off, out, ramify.