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gyassas

gyassas is the plural of gyassa.

Meaning of gyassa

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

Questions about gyassas

What is gyassas the plural of?
Gyassas is the plural of gyassa.

Words near gyassas in the dictionary

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

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