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Sare vs Yare - What's the difference?

sare | yare |

As adjectives the difference between sare and yare

is that sare is dry, withered while yare is ready; prepared.

As an adverb sare

is much, very much, greatly.

sare

English

Alternative forms

* sear

Adjective

  • (British, archaic) dry, withered
    • Burn ash-wood green, 'tis a fire for a queen;
    Burn ash-wood sare , 'twool make a man sware.
  • (dialectal, Kent, archaic) tender, rotten
  • (dialectal, Northern England, archaic) melancholy, bad, severe

    • Adverb

  • (UK, dialectal, Northern England, archaic) much, very much, greatly

    • yare

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) Ready; prepared.
  • Ready, alert, prepared, prompt.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Be yare in thy preparation.
  • Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble.
  • (nautical, of a ship) Easily manageable and answering readily to the helm; yar.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare ; whereas the greater is slow.

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