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Jears vs Years - What's the difference?

jears | years |

As nouns the difference between jears and years

is that jears is (nautical) an assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship while years is .

jears

English

Alternative forms

* jeers

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • (nautical) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.
    • (Webster 1913)

    years

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • .
  • * 1981 , May 5 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers , said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol
    • It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}
  • (colloquial, hyperbole) An unusually long time.

    • Synonyms

    * (unusually long time) ages, yonks, for ever,

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