Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as coir.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Cocoanut fiber, or the cordage made from it. See coir.

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Examples

  • There are distinctively southern speakers, like Tidewater Virginians who say "kyar" when they mean "car."

    languagehat.com: BAY DIALECT DYING. 2005

  • We took de coffin out de ambulance an 'kyar'd it right into de big parlor wid de pictures in it, whar dey use' to dance in ole times when Marse Chan wuz a schoolboy, an 'Miss Anne Chahmb'lin use' to come over, an 'go wid ole missis into her charmber an' tek her things off.

    Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

  • We took de coffin out de ambulance an 'kyar'd it right into de big parlor wid de pictures in it, whar dey use' to dance in ole times when Marse Chan wuz a school-boy, an 'Miss Anne Chahmb'lin use' to come over, an 'go wid ole missis into her chamber an' tek her things off.

    Marse Chan; A Tale of Old Virginia 1881

  • Slashers, for looking rude at Miss Fotheringay as she was on her kyar in the Phaynix; and then he described how the Captain apologised, gave a dinner at the Kildare Street, where six of them drank twinty-one bottles of claret, etc.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • "He came here, sure, Sorr, wid two constables on the kyar and two mounted men following him."

    Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

  • At fust she wuz skeered; but he tol 'her he could swim an' wouldn 'let her git hu't, an' den she let 'im kyar her 'cross, she hol'in' his han's.

    Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

  • An 'den he sez,' Ef I'm wounded, kyar me home, yo 'hear?'

    Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

  • Marse Chan he use 'to kyar Miss Anne's books fur her ev'y day, an' ef de road wuz muddy or she wuz tired, he use 'to tote her; an' 'twarn' hardly a day passed dat he didn 'kyar her some'n' to school -- apples or hick'y nuts, or some'n.

    Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

  • "Ah looked all through the kyar for it, sah," he was saying.

    Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge Stephen Leacock 1906

  • Arter I git out dar, cut dat ar mule loose, an 'git on him, he mought take out an' kyar me somewhar I didn't wanter go.

    A Virginia girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by ed. Myrta Lockett Avary 1903

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