yankee

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A native or inhabitant of the northern United States.

   “[…]so that I couldn't help telling her, sir, that in our country, leastways in Virginia (they say the Yankees are very pert), young people don't speak of their elders so.”

2. isim A native or inhabitant of New England.
3. isim An anglo, someone without French ancestry; a native or inhabitant of the rest of the United States.
4. isim A native or inhabitant of the United States in general.
5. isim Any individual associated with the Union; that is, the United States federal government, during the American Civil War.
6. isim A player for the New York Yankees.
7. isim A large triangular headsail used in light or moderate winds and set on the fore topmast stay. Unlike a genoa it does not fill the whole fore triangle, but is set in combination with the working staysail.
8. isim A wager on four selections, consisting of 11 separate bets: six doubles, four trebles and a fourfold accumulator.

   “Betting is complicated with win bets, place bets, each-way bets and complex bets such as doubles, trebles, Yankees and the like.”

9. fiil to cheat, trick or swindle somebody; to misrepresent something

   “Kentuckians reportedly regarded a Yankee “as a sort of Jesuit” because of his religious zeal, while in Illinois the term yankeed was synonymous with cheated.”

10. isim 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.
11. isim Alternative letter-case form of Yankee from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
12. isim Obsolete form of Yankee (“either a US Northerner or any US American”).

    “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.”