yar

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  1. To snarl; gnar. Thenne watz hit lif vpon list to lythen the houndez, … Loude he [the fox] watz ʒayned [hallooed] with ʒarande speech. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), l. 1724. All the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her. Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, II. xxii. (Davies.)

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  • Words formed from any letters in yar, plus an optional blank or existing letter —  Latest Articles
  • List all words starting with yar, words containing yar or words ending with yar —  Latest Articles
  • Boys, this yar is Jack Long, sheriff from Carson, a white man clean through. —  Frank Merriwell's Bravery
  • It is true, for example, that at Mukay-yar, the site of ancient Ur of the Chaldees, burials in earthenware coffins, in which the skeletons lie in the doubled-up position characteristic of Neolithic interments, have been found; but there is no doubt whatever that these are burials of a much later date, belonging, quite possibly, to the Parthian period. —  History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery
  • It's fourteen or thirteen mile' from h'yar, an' ef he'd started ter-morrer mawnin', he'd los' a'mos' a whole day, 'Sides dat, I done tole him dat ef he git dar ter-night he'd have his supper frowed in. —  Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences
 

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  1. Also yarr, Scots yirr; from Middle English *ʒarren, ʒaren, ʒurren, ʒeorren, from Anglo-Saxon georran, girran, gyrran (= Middle High German girren), roar, cry, rattle, chatter.
 

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