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Yarn used in the manufacture, repair, or rigging of sails; sailing-twine..
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.
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.
Flax and hemp: ropes of all kinds, sailyarn, and sailcoth.
Use sailyarn when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sailyarn means Yarn used in the manufacture, repair, or rigging of sails; sailing-twine..
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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.
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