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kiar

kiar is the obsolete form of coir.

Meaning of coir

Noun

coir (countable and uncountable, plural coirs)

  1. The fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute.
    • Then, how comparatively sweet was everything on board - no paint, no tar, no new rope, (vilest of smells to the qualmish!) no grease, or oil, or varnish; but instead of these, bamboo and rattan, and coir rope and palm thatch; pure vegetable fibres, which smell pleasantly if they smell at all, and...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 162

Proper noun capitalized: Kiar

Kiar

  1. A locality in the Central Coast council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Questions about kiar

What does kiar mean?
Kiar means a locality in the Central Coast council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
What is kiar the obsolete form of?
Kiar is the obsolete form of coir.
What part of speech is kiar?
Kiar is a proper noun.

Words near kiar in the dictionary

  1. Kiaochow
  2. kiap
  3. kiapped
  4. kiapping
  5. kiaps
  6. kiar
  7. Kiara
  8. KIAS
  9. kiasi
  10. kiasiness
  11. kiasis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kiar (page history and authors); Kiar (page history and authors); coir (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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