sailyarn
English
Alternative forms
- sail-yarn, sail yarn
Etymology
From Middle English *sayl-yarn, *seyl-ȝarn, equivalent to sail + yarn. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sailjäiden, West Frisian seiljern, Dutch zeilgaren, German Low German Seilgaarn, German Segelgarn, Danish sejlgarn, Swedish segelgarn, Icelandic seglgarn.
Noun
sailyarn (countable and uncountable, plural sailyarns)
- Yarn used in the manufacture, repair, or rigging of sails; sailing-twine.
- 1809, Sir John Carr, Caledonian Sketches, Or, A Tour Through Scotland in 1807:
- It is chiefly, for the present, confined to the manufacture of sail-yarns, and of plain goods; but it is yet in its infancy, and will, perhaps, soon extend its limits, as well as its variety of manufactures.
- 1936, Burma Research Society, The Journal, volume 26-27, page 15:
- In 1636 the Bommel arrived in Batavia with a cargo described as 1058 carra or 148 lasts of white rice, 210 slaves both male and female, 12 chests and 4 baskets of indigo, 1 maund or basket of wax and 1 basket of sailyarn, the whole valued at 11,933 florins.
- 1956, Studies in the Social Sciences, page 177:
- Flax and hemp: ropes of all kinds, sailyarn, and sailcoth.