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Quick to the helm
Answer for the clue "Quick to the helm ", 4 letters:
yare
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context archaic English) ready; prepared. 2 (context UK dialectal English) ready, alert, prepared, prompt. 3 eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble. 4 (context nautical of a ship English) Easily manageable and answering readily to the helm; yar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ready, prepared," Old English gearo "ready, prepared, equipped," from gearwian "to equip, prepare" (related to gearwe "clothing, dress") from Proto-Germanic *garwian "to make, prepare, equip, ready, complete" (see gear (n.)). Cognate with German gar , ...
Usage examples of yare.
Kell, Pedro Navarro, and Duncan Yare are authorized to board for immediate passage to Earth.
The boat gathered way, heading for the riding lights of the Yare where she stood out from Nantucket Town's breakwaters.
Then when the Yare and the Bentley were both out beyond the breakwaters, Walker gave her the finger and sailed east.
At a shipyard, whose master we caught just locking his gate to leave, we found a yare little caravel he'd just refitted, with a stout four-oar skiff aboard her.