half eagle

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   a former gold coin in United States worth 5 dollars

   Broadercoin

Questions about half eagle

What does half eagle mean?

half eagle means "a former gold coin in United States worth 5 dollars".

Is half eagle a common word?

half eagle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.