half-moon

n.

1. The moon when only half its disk is illuminated.
2. Something, such as the lunula of a fingernail, that is shaped like a crescent.

A roughly crescent-shaped fortification outwork. Also see ravelin.

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Half Moon, the ship the Dutch East India Company provided for the voyage of exploration made by Henry Hudson in 1609, in the course of which the Hudson River was discovered. A vessel of eighty tons, it was a flat-bottomed two-master. Called by the Dutch a vlieboot, a term derived from the island of Vlieland, it has been translated into English, without reference to its derivations, as "flyboat." Later employed in the East India trade, the Half Moon was wrecked in 1615 on the shore of the island of Mauritius, then owned by the Dutch.

Bibliography

Syme, Ronald. Henry Hudson. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1991.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - halvmåne, halvmåneformet

Nederlands (Dutch)
halvemaan

Français (French)
n. - (Astron) demi-lune

Deutsch (German)
n. - Halbmond

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μηνίσκος, ημισέληνος (κν. μισοφέγγαρο)

Italiano (Italian)
mezzaluna

Português (Portuguese)
n. - meia-lua (f)

Русский (Russian)
полумесяц

Español (Spanish)
n. - media luna

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - halvmåne

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
半月, 半月形

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 半月, 半月形

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 반달, 반월형, 속 손톱

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 半月, 半月形のもの

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) هلال, شئ هلالي الشكل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮המועד בו נראית מחצית הירח בלבד, חצי-ירח, גוף עגול-למחצה‬

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