Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

yarb

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: yarb
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

British usage; Archaic

Example Sentences

"The medicine is nat'ral yarbs, pure yarbs; yarbs must cure me."
"He was then generally known by the soubriquet of Yarb, or Yarb Man, as he preferred to be hailed, for the reason that he always carried with him a collection of yarrow, tansy, snake root, squaw root, choice buds and barks […]"
"Yarrow, or milleflower, was an exception; everybody still gathered that in large quantities to make 'yarb beer'."

Usage

British usage
Archaic

Inflected Forms

yarbs (plural)

Rhymes With

carb barb garb arb harb darb larb

Questions

What does yarb mean?: herb

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