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Vare vs Yare - What's the difference?

vare | yare |

As a noun vare

is a weasel.

As an adjective yare is

ready; prepared.

vare

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A weasel.
    • Derived terms
    * vare widgeon

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wand or staff of authority or justice.
  • * Dryden
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    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.

    Anagrams

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