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Half-Cock
- noun - confusion resulting from lack of preparation
Half-Deck
- - A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat shell. See Boat shell.
Half-Fish
- - A salmon in its fifth year of growth.
Half-Life
- noun - the time required for something to fall to half its initial value (in particular, the time for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to disintegrate)
Half-Mast
- noun - a position some distance below the top of a mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress
Half-Moon
- noun - the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail
- the time at which the Moon is at first or last quarter when half its face is illuminated
Half-Pike
- - A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon.
Half-Pint
- noun - disparaging terms for small people
Half-Port
- - One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole.