hamal

How to use hamal in a sentence

• The star was called hamal by the Arabs, signifying a sheep, and the animal is represented as looking backwards.

  The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' | Thomas Orchard

• A hamal's carrying capacity may therefore be expressed, after this experience, as equal to a half horse-power.

  Turkey | Julius R. Van Millingen

• The Pasha told the hamal to go away and come back in a week; in the meantime he would see what he could do for him.

  Told in the Coffee House | Cyrus Adler

• She whispered to me, after the play: "Isidore and Alfred de hamal are both here!"

  The Worlds Greatest Books | Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.

• hamal lies near the path of the moon, and is one of the stars from which longitude is reckoned.

  A Field Book of the Stars | William Tyler Olcott