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bawleys

bawleys is the plural of bawley.

Meaning of bawley

Noun

bawley (plural bawleys)

  1. A small fishing boat, equipped with sails, used mainly in the estuary of the Thames, England.
    • It is ten o'clock in the day; the bawleys have returned from the fishing grounds, and scores of them have anchored in the Ray—a deep stretch of water lying between the spit of sand that extends from the end of Canvey Island close up to Southend Pier, and the mud-flats of Leigh.1891, G. A. Henty, chapter 1, in A Chapter of Adventures

Questions about bawleys

What is bawleys the plural of?
Bawleys is the plural of bawley.

Words near bawleys in the dictionary

  1. bawled one's eyes out
  2. bawled out
  3. bawler
  4. bawlers
  5. bawley
  6. bawleys
  7. bawlies
  8. bawlin'
  9. bawling
  10. bawling off
  11. bawling one's eyes out

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