Definition of Halfa

1. a type of grass [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Halfa

half space
half spaces
half stack
half staff
half step
half steps
half time
half times
half title
half track
half viaduct
half virgins
half volley
half wish
halfa (current term)
halfas
halfawake
halfback
halfbacks
halfbaked
halfbeak
halfbeaks
halfbirthday
halfbirthdays
halfbreed
halfbreeds
halfbrother
halfbrothers

Literary usage of Halfa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Egyptian Soudan, Its Loss and Its Recovery by Henry Stamford Lewis Alford, William Dennistoun Sword (1898)
"CHAPTER IV WADY halfa Its situation—Raids—Description of the place—Wingate and Slatin— ... WADY halfa, situated five miles north of the Second Cataract, ..."

2. Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum: The Testimony of an Independent Eye by Alexander Macdonald, Charles George Gordon (1887)
"Connections of Wady-halfa—Railway and Soudan question—Gordon's plans for opening ... 4— Erroneous interpretation of by headquarter staff at halfa—Wolseley's ..."

3. Churches in Lower Nubia by Geoffrey S. Mileham, David Randall-MacIver (1910)
"Position of rh eE?rlier CHAPTER IX THE CHURCH NEAR WADY halfa THE temples at the ancient Egyptian town of Behen, which stands on the west bank of the river ..."

4. With Kitchener to Khartum by George Warrington Steevens (1898)
"I halfa TELLS ITS STORT. To walk round Wady halfa is to read the whole romance of the Sudan. This is the look-out whence Egypt has strained her vision ..."

5. My Winter on the Nile by Charles Dudley Warner (1880)
"WADY halfa. OURS is the crew to witch the world with noble seamanship. It is like a first-class orchestra, in which all the performers are artists. ..."

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