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Yardarm

noun
1.
Either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship.






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"Yardarm" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lydia was the tenderest of mothers to Florence Dombey, she was, when the fever of "play and pretend" was on her, capable of the most astonishing cruelties. During the game of pirates, Florence Dombey had been hung from a willow branch, in lieu of a yardarm, and had remained dangling there in the wind, ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow

... a devilish gleam coming into his eye, "but I have now got you and the money to boot. But harkye, I'll stand by my half of the bargain, by G—. If ever you reach Maryland alive, they may hang me to the yardarm ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... a third, the main topgallant-sail. This third sail did not set from a yard until many years after its introduction. It began life like a modern "moon-raker," a triangular piece of canvas, setting from the truck, or summit of the topmast, to the yardarm of the main topsail-yard. Up above it, on a bending light pole, fluttered the great colours, a George's cross of scarlet on a ground of white. Abaft the main-mast were the mizzen, carrying one sail, on a lateen yard, one arm of which nearly touched the deck; and the bonaventure ...
— On the Spanish Main - Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. • John Masefield



Words linked to "Yardarm" :   yard, terminal, end



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