Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Readily; dexterously; skilfully.

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

  • adverb obsolete In a yare manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a yare manner.

Etymologies

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yare +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • ‘Yarely! yarely! pull away, my hearts,’ said the latter, and the boat bearing the unlucky young man soon carried him on board the frigate.

    Waverley 2004

  • _ Good, [366-1] speak to the mariners: fall to't yarely, [366-2] or we run ourselves a-ground: bestir, bestir.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Good, speak to the mariners: fall to’t yarely, or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.

    Act I. Scene I. The Tempest 1914

  • Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely, or we run ourselves to ground; bestir, bestir!

    Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909

  • ` Yarely! yarely! pull away, my hearts! 'said the latter, and the boat bearing the unlucky young man soon carried him on board the frigate.

    The Waverley 1877

  • "Eat with despatch," he said, "and follow me yarely to mine house."

    The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely, or we run ourselves to ground; bestir, bestir!

    Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography Mark Twain 1872

  • "Good: Speak to the mariners: Fall to't yarely, or we run ourselves aground."

    The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • "Yarely! yarely! pull away, my hearts," said the latter, and the boat bearing the unlucky young man soon carried him on board the frigate.

    Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • "Yarely! yarely! pull away, my hearts," said the latter, and the boat bearing the unlucky young man soon carried him on board the frigate.

    Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

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