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gyassa

gyassa noun: a sail trading vessel of the upper Nile, with one mast and a very large lateen sail on a yard twice as long as the mast and as long as, or longer than, the vessel itself.

Noun

gyassa (plural gyassas or gyassi)

  1. A sail trading vessel of the upper Nile, with one mast and a very large lateen sail on a yard twice as long as the mast and as long as, or longer than, the vessel itself.
    • What was worse, the gyassa , laden with stores and spare kits, belonging to an Egyptian battalion which was just about to start forward, was blown clean over, and everything shot into the river.1898, George Warrington Steevens, With Kitchener to Khartum, page 236
    • Meanwhile the sunken gyassa was kept at the surface by the tackle fastened on to our mast.1899, Winston Churchill, Francis William Rhodes, The River War, page 242

Forms of gyassa

pluralgyassas
pluralgyassi

Questions about gyassa

What does gyassa mean?
Gyassa means a sail trading vessel of the upper Nile, with one mast and a very large lateen sail on a yard twice as long as the mast and as long as, or longer than, the vessel itself.
What part of speech is gyassa?
Gyassa is a noun.
What is the plural of gyassa?
The plural of gyassa is gyassas.

Words near gyassa in the dictionary

  1. gyarumoji
  2. Gyarung
  3. gyarus
  4. gyascutus
  5. gyascutuses
  6. gyassa
  7. gyassas
  8. gyassi
  9. gyat
  10. gyat damn
  11. gyats

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