half-section


noun
  1. engineering a scale drawing of a section through a symmetrical object that shows only half the object

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How to use half-section in a sentence

  • I'd meet him crawling along the fence of his half section, wrapped up in all the rags he could lay claws on, if 'twas winter.

    Menotah | Ernest G. Henham
  • His half section is all wheat land and has been brought under a high state of cultivation, large crops being annually gathered.

  • The result is a half section of the boat; the other symmetrical half is easily obtained.

  • A mile away to the west stood a low stone house and immediately in front of us opened a half-section of unfenced sod.

  • Father says every foot of the half-section ought to be viewed from that tree, except what's in the little clump about the cabin.

    The Price of the Prairie | Margaret Hill McCarter