Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Readily; dexterously; skilfully.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete In a yare manner.
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- adverb In a
yare manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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‘Yarely! yarely! pull away, my hearts,’ said the latter, and the boat bearing the unlucky young man soon carried him on board the frigate.
Waverley 2004
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_ Good, [366-1] speak to the mariners: fall to't yarely, [366-2] or we run ourselves a-ground: bestir, bestir.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Good, speak to the mariners: fall tot yarely, or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.
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Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely, or we run ourselves to ground; bestir, bestir!
Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909
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` Yarely! yarely! pull away, my hearts! 'said the latter, and the boat bearing the unlucky young man soon carried him on board the frigate.
The Waverley 1877
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"Eat with despatch," he said, "and follow me yarely to mine house."
The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely, or we run ourselves to ground; bestir, bestir!
Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography Mark Twain 1872
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"Good: Speak to the mariners: Fall to't yarely, or we run ourselves aground."
The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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"Yarely! yarely! pull away, my hearts," said the latter, and the boat bearing the unlucky young man soon carried him on board the frigate.
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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"Yarely! yarely! pull away, my hearts," said the latter, and the boat bearing the unlucky young man soon carried him on board the frigate.
Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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