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yarn
A story. A word chiefly used by seamen. To spin a long yarn, is to tell a long or tedious story. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
The notice of yarn is contained in an extremely obscure passage in (1 Kings 10:28; 2 Chronicles 1:16) The Hebrew Received Text is questionable. Gesenius gives the sense of "number" as applying equally to the merchants and the horses: "A band of the king's merchants bought a drove (of horses) at a price."
A story. A word chiefly used by seamen. To spin a long yarn, is to tell a long or tedious story. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.