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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Agile; lively.
  2. adj. Nautical Responding easily; maneuverable. Used of a vessel.
  3. adj. Archaic Ready; prepared.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Ready; prepared.
  2. Prompt; active; brisk; sprightly.
  3. Easily wrought; answering quickly to the helm; manageable; swift: said of a ship.
  4. Briskly; dexterously; yarely.
  5. See yar.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. archaic Ready; prepared.
  2. adj. Ready, alert, prepared, prompt.
  3. adj. Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble.
  4. adj. nautical, of a ship Easily manageable and answering readily to the helm; yar.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Ready; dexterous; eager; lively; quick to move.
  2. adv. obsolete Soon.

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English yare, ȝare, from Old English ġearu ("prepared, ready, prompt, equipped, complete, finished, yare"), from Proto-Germanic *garwaz (“ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ-, *gʰerbʰ- (“to grab, take, rake”). Cognate with Dutch gaar ("done, dressed, ready"), German gar ("ready, complete"), Icelandic görr, gerr ("perfect"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English gearo, ready. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “A little background study into the word "fear," the Hebrew word yare, will reveal that it means, "to be afraid" [and] "to stand in awe" (”

    Apprising Ministries

  • “However, there is another aspect of this word yare as in "to be afraid" of.”

    Apprising Ministries

  • “The yare also looking for tools and strategies that might improve their own digital surveillance.”

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  • “Hit them first you already know the yare going to opose it.”

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  • “Borumoter first took his gage at lil lolly lavvander waader since when capriole legs covets limbs of a crane and was it the twylyd or the mounth of the yare or the feint of her smell made the seo-men assalt of her (in imageascene all: whimwhim whimwhim).”

    Finnegans Wake

  • “We had our first full day of patients yesterday and I'm happy to report that my ship is yare.”

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  • “NAMA ashi miwaku no MAAMEIDO dasu toko dashite tawawa ni nattara houmono no koi wa yare soukai”

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  • “I do desire to learn, sir: and I hope, if you have occasion to use me for your own turn, you shall find me yare; for truly, sir, for your kindness I owe you”

    Measure for Measure

  • “The yare wrong, just like people who think that believing in God means that you have to hate liberals.”

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  • “The vessels were yare and scrubbed, and the flagship was draped with garlands of flowers, ropes as thick as a man's wrist that looped around the rails and over the figurehead on the prow.”

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles

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Words with the same meaning

  1. ready
  1. dexterous
  1. eager
  1. lively
  1. soon

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. yore
  1. yarely

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  1. nautical

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  • Exitaisle This word's most popular usage in the 20th Century may have been three times in the movie "Philadelphia Story," in reference to a boat and to the heroine of the movie, as in this dialogue by characters played by Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant:

    Tracy Lord: Oh Dexter you're not doing it just to soften the blow?
    C. K. Dexter Haven: No.
    Tracy Lord: Nor to save my face?
    C. K. Dexter Haven: Oh, it's a nice little face.
    Tracy Lord: Oh Dexter, I'll be yare now, I promise to be yare.
    C. K. Dexter Haven: Be whatever you like, you're my redhead.

    The script had previously set the stage for this exchange by using yare in reference to a boat the two erstwhile (in the original, precise definition) lovers had enjoyed. Jul 5, 2009

  • TechnoMom characterized by speed and agility; nimble, lively, handy, maneuverable
    archaic: set for action
    Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gearu; akin to Old High German garo ready
    Date: before 12th century

    She's a right yarely ship, she is. Oct 30, 2007

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