Definition of "ammiral" []

• Obsolete spelling of admiral. (noun)

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• "They come and lay the cloth presently, wide as the main-sheet of some tall ammiral."
• ""Like the mast of some tall ammiral," from the shelving steeps that overhang the torrents, and piercing high into the blue."
• "While, therefore, the New England forester must search long before he finds a pine fit to be the mast Of some great ammiral, beeches and elms and birches, as sturdy as the mightiest of their progenitors, are still no rarity [181]."