"yankee" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Nautical",
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      "glosses": [
        "A headsail resembling a genoa or a jib but with a high-cut clew, normally used together with a staysail. A sailing boat is typically equipped with three yankee sails of different sizes, number one being the largest."
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        ],
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          "genoa",
          "genoa"
        ],
        [
          "jib",
          "jib"
        ],
        [
          "clew",
          "clew"
        ],
        [
          "staysail",
          "staysail"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) A headsail resembling a genoa or a jib but with a high-cut clew, normally used together with a staysail. A sailing boat is typically equipped with three yankee sails of different sizes, number one being the largest."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "word": "Yankee from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative letter-case form of Yankee from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet."
      ],
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        "(international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Yankee from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "Yankee"
        }
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1823 May 16, “Tour to the Western States”, in New-England Galaxy, volume VI, number 292, front page, column 2",
          "text": "As the coach was by law limited to a slow pace on the bridge, we had leisure to read the wayward fancies of our predecessors inscribed in chalk, and many a true yankee name did we recognize;—the bridge is a kind of traveller’s register.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1843, Baynard Rush Hall, The New Purchase: Or, Seven and a Half Years in the Far West, page 183",
          "text": "Meanwhile, rumour had been tramping about with her crescit eundô; and, long before the Faculty received our Scytala, they had heard her cry—“The Board has told Major Thorntree, the Faculty shall be tried and turned right out, and shall be sued for damages done the school and the State, and—Woodville, by their unconstitutional, high-hand, big-buggish, aristocratic yankee notions!!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, Edward Bond Foote, The Radical Remedy in Social Science - Borning Better Babies through Regulating Reproduction by Controlling Conception - An Earnest Essay on Pressing Problems, Murray Hill Publishing Company, page 130",
          "text": "The quidnunctious yankee woman is posted in gynecology. She never breeds."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete form of Yankee."
      ],
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        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
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    }
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  "word": "yankee"
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  "forms": [
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      "form": "yankees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A headsail resembling a genoa or a jib but with a high-cut clew, normally used together with a staysail. A sailing boat is typically equipped with three yankee sails of different sizes, number one being the largest."
      ],
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          "headsail",
          "headsail"
        ],
        [
          "genoa",
          "genoa"
        ],
        [
          "jib",
          "jib"
        ],
        [
          "clew",
          "clew"
        ],
        [
          "staysail",
          "staysail"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) A headsail resembling a genoa or a jib but with a high-cut clew, normally used together with a staysail. A sailing boat is typically equipped with three yankee sails of different sizes, number one being the largest."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
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        }
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        "Alternative letter-case form of Yankee from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet."
      ],
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        "(international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Yankee from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1823 May 16, “Tour to the Western States”, in New-England Galaxy, volume VI, number 292, front page, column 2",
          "text": "As the coach was by law limited to a slow pace on the bridge, we had leisure to read the wayward fancies of our predecessors inscribed in chalk, and many a true yankee name did we recognize;—the bridge is a kind of traveller’s register.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1843, Baynard Rush Hall, The New Purchase: Or, Seven and a Half Years in the Far West, page 183",
          "text": "Meanwhile, rumour had been tramping about with her crescit eundô; and, long before the Faculty received our Scytala, they had heard her cry—“The Board has told Major Thorntree, the Faculty shall be tried and turned right out, and shall be sued for damages done the school and the State, and—Woodville, by their unconstitutional, high-hand, big-buggish, aristocratic yankee notions!!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, Edward Bond Foote, The Radical Remedy in Social Science - Borning Better Babies through Regulating Reproduction by Controlling Conception - An Earnest Essay on Pressing Problems, Murray Hill Publishing Company, page 130",
          "text": "The quidnunctious yankee woman is posted in gynecology. She never breeds."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete form of Yankee."
      ],
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