A person or thing that divides something into halves, or someone who receives half of something.
From 'half' + '-er' (agent noun suffix). A straightforward English formation from the common word 'half.'
In farming, a 'halfer' was someone who worked land as a sharecropper taking half the crop—it's a reminder that many English words grew directly from economic relationships!
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