| Summary: | half . there is a uniform method of division. called "having half you hand." There are four men in the crew, including the skipper-owner. Say, for the sake of simplicity, that the boat gets a hundred quintals for the season: that is, four shares of twenty-five quintals each. The skipper takes one of them. He also takes as his further share one-half of the twenty-five quintal share of each of the three sharemen. This giving him an additional twelve and a half quintals from each sharemen or thirty-seven and a half quintals from the three, he now has a grand total of sixty-two and a half quintals out of the hundred, and each shareman has twelve and a half quintals "to his own hand." G. M. Story May 1960 Used I and Sup Used I Used I Cp OED ~ n 7 f on the halves, DAE now dial. Phr half one's hand: one half a 'share' of the catch of fish due to a crew-member, the other half-share going to owner, 'planter' or skipper.
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