yare

• yar (for the nautical sense)

From Middle English yare, ȝare, from Old English ġearu (“prepared, ready, prompt, equipped, complete, finished, yare”), from Proto-Germanic *garwaz (“ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to grab, take, rake”). Cognate with Dutch gaar (“done, well-cooked”), German gar (“done, well-cooked; wholly, at all”), Icelandic görr, gerr (“perfect”).

• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

yare (comparative yarer, superlative yarest)

1. (archaic) Ready; prepared.
2. (Britain dialectal) Ready, alert, prepared, prompt.
   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III scene iv:

     […] Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skillful and deadly.

3. Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble.
4. (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.

• yarely

yare (comparative more yare, superlative most yare)

1. (archaic) Yarely.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene i:

     Hey, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to th'Master's whistle. […]

• Arey, Ayer, Ayre, Raye, Reay, aery, ayre, eyra, year

yare

1. Rōmaji transcription of やれ

yare c (plural yares)

1. year

yare

1. gravel