noun
a half of an inch, equal to 1 / 24 of a foot (1.27 centimeters).
Origin:
1810–20
1810–20
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| half-inch | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a measure of length approximately equivalent to 13 millimetres |
| —vb | |
| 2. | slang, old-fashioned to steal |
| [sense 2: from rhyming slang for | |
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