Lexicographical Neighbors of Spunyarn
Literary usage of Spunyarn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poems and Plays of John Masefield by John Masefield (1918)
"Life is nothing but spunyarn on a winch in need of oil, Little enough is twined
and spun but fever-fret and moil. I have travelled on land and sea, ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1897)
"On the eighth evening, spunyarn, entering the humpy some half-hour later ...
replied spunyarn as he stripped preparatory to washing in the firm's tub. ..."
3. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1867)
"spunyarn" quoted in his first letter part of the 22nd rule of the Royal Thames
Yacht Club,—" Any yacht bearing away or altering her course to leeward, ..."
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