"gyassa" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1898, George Warrington Steevens, With Kitchener to Khartum, page 236:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, Winston Churchill, Francis William Rhodes, The River War, page 242:",
          "text": "Meanwhile the sunken gyassa was kept at the surface by the tackle fastened on to our mast.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1900 February 22, “Fitzgerald's Exploorations in the Andes”, in The Nation, volume 70, number 1808, page 152:",
          "text": "The characteristic sailing craft of Bermuda, Norway, Denmark, Holland, and other European countries and waters are sketched and described, including the Venetian fishing-boats, with their richly colored sails; the rich dahabeahs and gyassi, with their graceful sails.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, The South and East African Year Book & Guide, page 838:",
          "text": "The most convenient way in most cases is to charter a special steamer from the Sudan Government, but those wishing to be quite independent can buy a nuggar or sailing gyassa which can sail up stream on the prevailing wind but must be towed back.",
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      "glosses": [
        "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."
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      "tags": [
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          "ref": "1898, George Warrington Steevens, With Kitchener to Khartum, page 236:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, Winston Churchill, Francis William Rhodes, The River War, page 242:",
          "text": "Meanwhile the sunken gyassa was kept at the surface by the tackle fastened on to our mast.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900 February 22, “Fitzgerald's Exploorations in the Andes”, in The Nation, volume 70, number 1808, page 152:",
          "text": "The characteristic sailing craft of Bermuda, Norway, Denmark, Holland, and other European countries and waters are sketched and described, including the Venetian fishing-boats, with their richly colored sails; the rich dahabeahs and gyassi, with their graceful sails.",
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        },
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          "text": "The most convenient way in most cases is to charter a special steamer from the Sudan Government, but those wishing to be quite independent can buy a nuggar or sailing gyassa which can sail up stream on the prevailing wind but must be towed back.",
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