half-line
[ haf-lahyn, hahf- ]
Origin of half-line
1First recorded in 1910–15
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How to use half-line in a sentence
It is noteworthy that, out of these twenty-seven instances, the added n appears sixteen times at the end of line or half-line.
Now Bartels points out that in Layamons verse there is no enjambment and no beginning of a clause in the middle of a half-line.
A half line is missing, something like, liues louerd so he is, corresponding to mortis vindex in T. Comp.
The missing half line may have been something like, to is dale nier, as in l. 4.
Perhaps fikenunge, deceit; or, for the last half-line read for ure unframe, comp.
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