yare

yare \yair\, adjective:

1. quick; agile; lively.
2. (of a ship) quick to the helm; easily handled or maneuvered.
3. Archaic. a. ready; prepared. b. nimble; quick.

I reckon I was hopin' it would take us to the landin'. She looks yare to me.

-- Jo Goodman, Crystal Passion

Faith, then, up foot! be yare, or, by the mass, I may forget that I am in some sort your captain and in some your debtor! Go!

-- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

Yare was used in Middle English before the year 900, but its Old English progenitor gearu meant "ready" or "prepared."