Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Nautical Either end of a yard of a square sail.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See yard, n., 5.
Wiktionary
- n. The outer quarters of a horizontal spar attached to the mast athwartships, equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard{6}, from the center or mast to the end.
- n. The portion of a yard{6} outboard of the slings, often called the
outer quarter .
WordNet 3.0
- n. either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship
Examples
“They looked aloft; at the end of the yardarm was a mass of bluish light like a small globe.”
The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews.
“They rigged a double yardarm onto the masts to which they attached cauldrons full of flammable liquid.”
“Pazel made a show of checking the yardarm bolts, and the knots on the closest stays.”
“Of course. .if he was a republican he would be swinging from the yardarm. .blago and burris both need to be in leavenworth making little rocks out of big ones”
Burris will not face perjury charges for Blagojevich testimony
“But not together before the sun goes over the yardarm.”
“Gerald, in one of his flourishes, had put up a yardarm extending out from under the eaves at the east end of the house—a sheltered vantage point for an owl.”
“The owls liked the house but they spurned the yardarm in preference to the roof ridge above my bedroom.”
“The Commonwealth Games, however, have driven me back to the TV before the sun is over the yardarm, and I note the Jeremy Kyle Show is still on.”
The Guardian: Delhi delivers absolute delight to daytime-TV schedules
“Two watches on a single yardarm and unable to put a reef in a handkerchief like that!" he snorted.”
“The other is that the survivors were swung at the yardarm.”
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