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half-filled

adjective

  1. (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity


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For each guest there was a cocoa-nut shell, half-filled with miti, a sourish beverage extracted from the cocoa-palm.

Taking a long-handled dipper, Arthur half-filled it with the bait and threw it as far as he could out toward the school of fish.

Some of the French regiments are half filled with these Irish renegades.

But after the shock, our brave little boat, though half filled, rose and shook herself like a spaniel.

At three o'clock the balloon was over half filled and was swaying savagely at its anchorage.

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