Yare vs Yarn - What's the difference?
yare | yarn |
(archaic) Ready; prepared.
Ready, alert, prepared, prompt.
* Shakespeare
Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble.
(nautical, of a ship) Easily manageable and answering readily to the helm; yar.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
(uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
(nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
(countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.
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As an adjective yare
is ready; prepared.As a noun yarn is
a twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.As a verb yarn is
to tell a story.yare
English
Adjective
(er)- Be yare in thy preparation.
- The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare ; whereas the greater is slow.
Anagrams
* ----yarn
English
Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn , but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}