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Meanings of half-line in English

Russian
открытый луч
Portuguese
raio
Catalan
semirecta
Spanish
rayo
Wikidata

Line with one endpoint.

        открытый луч
        Usage of half-line in English
        1
        If you can translate the line or half-line I shall be benefited.
        Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
        2
        I did one little half-line.
        Robin and ruby
        3
        Weyburn repeated the half-line.
        Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 5
        4
        Now, in Anglo-Saxon poetry the lines were divided into two half- lines.
        English Literature for Boys and Girls
        5
        The walls were half-lined with her father's books-rareold books in handsome bindings.
        The Lovels of Arden
        6
        These short lines remind us somewhat of the old Anglo-Saxon short half-lines, except that they rime.
        English Literature for Boys and Girls
        7
        And the half-lines can be further resolved into two halves, each containing a single accented word or phrase.
        The Babylonian Legends of the Creation