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bawly

bawly is the alternative form 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

Forms of bawly

pluralbawlies

Questions about bawly

What is bawly the alternative form of?
Bawly is the alternative form of bawley.

Words near bawly in the dictionary

  1. Bawlmer
  2. bawls
  3. bawls off
  4. bawls one's eyes out
  5. bawls out
  6. bawly
  7. bawn
  8. Bawnboy
  9. bawneen
  10. bawneens
  11. bawns

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