Definition of "half-past" []

• Attributive form of half past, noun. (adjective)

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• "You've got to drop one child in one place, and another child in another, and get yourself to work and be in by half-past eight."
• "At twelve o'clock it gets dinner, composed of a tin of coarse Indian meal stirabout (skilly), and at half-past five it gets"
• "The food that is given to it consists of a piece of usually bad - baked prison bread and a tin of water for breakfast at half-past seven."