yankee

noun

1. 1

   A headsail resembling a genoa or a jib but with a high-cut clew, normally used together with a staysail. A sailing boat is typically equipped with three yankee sails of different sizes, number one being the largest.

2. 2

   Variant of Yankee from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic AlphabetAlternative letter-case form of Yankee from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

3. 3

   Variant of YankeeobsoleteObsolete form of Yankee (“either a US Northerner or any US American”).

   As the coach was by law limited to a slow pace on the bridge, we had leisure to read the wayward fancies of our predecessors inscribed in chalk, and many a true yankee name did we recognize;—the bridge is a kind of traveller’s register.

   Meanwhile, rumour had been tramping about with her crescit eundô; and, long before the Faculty received our Scytala, they had heard her cry—“The Board has told Major Thorntree, the Faculty shall be tried and turned right out, and shall be sued for damages done the school and the State, and—Woodville, by their unconstitutional, high-hand, big-buggish, aristocratic yankee notions!!”

   It seems as if within the past few years, our yankee friends were turning their attention in earnest to the matter of endeavoring to lighten the heavier parts of female labor.

   The quidnunctious yankee woman is posted in gynecology. She never breeds.

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