At an automatic half-barrier level crossing, a lifting barrier that does not block the whole road when in the horizontal position, placed on the left side in the UK according to driving on the left, and mostly used on narrower or quieter roads instead of two lifting barriers either side of the railway crossing.

half-batnoun

A bat (brick with one whole end) that is exactly half the length of the original brick.

half-bloodadj

Related by sharing descent from one parent.

half-boundadj

Having only the back and corners bound in leather

half-brainedadj

Exhibiting low intelligence, as if having only half a brain.

half-bredadj

Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good breeding; not well trained.

half-breednoun

A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo).

half-brokenadj

Halfway or partially broken; somewhat broken.

half-builtadj

Only partially built; not finished or completed.

half-cafadj

consisting of equal parts decaf and regular coffee.

half-casteadj

Of mixed racial descent.

half-centurynoun

A period of fifty years, half of a century.

half-chancenoun

A slight chance.

half-clammedadj

Half-filled

half-cockadv

Not with full vigour, half-heartedly.

half-colonelnoun

lieutenant colonel

half-cousinnoun

The child of one's parent's half-sibling.

half-crownnoun

A pre-decimal coin used in Britain, Ireland and New Zealand, equivalent to 30 pence or two shillings and six pence.

half-dealnoun

A half-part; half.

half-deckedadj

Of or pertaining to a vessel consisting of a deck covering about half of its length or surface area.

half-demonnoun

A hybrid of a demon and a creature that is not a demon.

half-diminished seventh chordnoun

a chord with the bass note and the minor third, diminished fifth, and minor seventh above it, often denoted with 𝆩.

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