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- noun plural (Naut.) See 1st
jeer (b).
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- noun nautical An assemblage or combination of
tackles , forhoisting or lowering theyards of a ship.
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Examples
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Sure, Rose and Bernard are a combo and one would most likely not pop up without the other, but I really need Rose because no other woman can be rough and tough with Jack and keep back the jears (that's LOST-talk for Jack tears, in case you don't know).
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The world is ready for Obama. go for it. end for the stupid en jalouse people, A dem. is A dem, and not A rep. if obama wins, he hat more fans than Hillary. shame on you. sorry for the language, i m 62 jears old and learnet no english.
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Of the latter, the one most commonly in use was flogging at the gangway or jears.
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He was made Solicitob-Gbnbbal in 1733; was in 1736, advanced to the office of ATTOKMxy-GBvaRAL, and diadiarged with integrity and ability the duties of that laborious situatioo, during a period of about eighteen jears.
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Great* Britain had expe - rienced thefaltitary effeAs of a place bill, for upwards of eighty jears; it was a principle interwoven with the revolution, apd conlider -
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There has been a confi - derable change, of late jears, in this refpeft, among the in - habitants here; the Gaelic having become rather more pre - valent than ufualf.
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Two or three have died, within these few jears, aged above 90; one of them, a. blacksmith, died at the age of 97; but I do not at present recollect of anj person who ever reached his hundredth year.
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Tradition informs, that a ftroag guard of armed men was Rationed here, to prevent all communication between the found and the in - ftded, while the plague raged in Aberdeen and its envji. rons, about 130 jears ago.
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Hard that lessee for jears, sant waste, should enjoy the trees or materials of the house when he palls it down, the intention of that clause only being that the lessee for years shoold be u free from waste as he was before tbe statute of Gloucester, I. 598
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So though it be by any writing in na - ture of a wilL ibidm Tenant for ninety-nine jears, if he so long live, with power of charging the premises with sums of money, joins in suffering a recovery, and in de - claring new uses thereof; this extin - guishes the power of charging.
chained_bear commented on the word jears
"Jears, an assemblage of tackles, by which the lower yards of a ship are hoisted up along the mast to their usual station, or lowered from thence, as occasion requires; the former of which operations is called swaying, and the latter striking....
"In a ship of war the jears are usually composed of two strong tackles, each of which has two blocks...."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 201
October 12, 2008