An inn or place of call midway on a journey. / A temporary residence for those who have left prison, residential drug rehabilitation, or the like, designed to ease them back into society.

(Canadian football) A defensive back whose primary jobs are to cover the slotback on passing plays and prevent running plays from going to the outside.

(intransitive, idiomatic, of two parties) To compromise; to achieve a mutual accommodation. / (transitive, idiomatic) To compromise with or to accommodate.

plural of halfbreed

Alternative form of half-breed

(nautical) The portion of the deck next below the spar deck which is between the mainmast and the cabin. / A boat shell (Crepidula genus).

plural of halfdeck

Halfway dead; only partially alive.

(dated, informal) Petty, insignificant.

(firearms) The position when the cock of a gun is at the first notch.