How to pronounce“ammiral”in English
IPA/æmmɪræl/
Syllablesam·mi·ral
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Fish's reading goes: "His Spear, to equal which the tallest Pine / hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the Mast / of some great Ammiral."
An "Ammiral" is a big warship. Now we may assume, having read only that much of the simile, that Satan's spear is as tall as the mast of the ship,
not a small spear. And so we adjust our minds to accommodate -- because presumably we weren't imagining Satan to be that big -- to accommodate this sense of
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Definitions of “ammiral”
noun
Obsolete form of admiral.