yardarm

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This be a fine chance to walk the yardarm, avast the gangplank, ahoy thar young Jim, Davey Jones matey locker, keel haul yer pieces o 'eight, dubloon to an prepare to be boarded!

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  1. noun Nautical Either end of a yard of a square sail.

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  • St. George's Church had been hit, but the tower was still standing, and its clock still sticking out like a yardarm. —  EQMM, July 2005
  • “Sun's over the yardarm, Maggie.” She nodded and slipped away. —  AnalogSF,Mar2004
  • On the ship's only yardarm, the signal flags hung languidly from their halyards in the still afternoon air. —  Brown Waters, Black Berets
  • Having feared that if Bastard Jack had told his ragged band to hang Joe by the yardarm, they'd have started trying to drag him to the ship, Joe was glad to see them go. —  Ross, JoAnn - Stewart Sisters 03 - Out Of The Storm.html
  • Saddam is in a court room instead of hanging from a yardarm, who won this so called war? —  Biga's Rants - A Townhall.com user blog
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