royal-yard

"He fell from the royal-yard," Dorety cried hotly.

MAKE WESTING 2010

I was practically certain that something was on the royal-yard, moving in to the mast; as though, you know, it might have come up the leech of the sail.

The Ghost Pirates 2007

That morning, John seeing that the wind was in their favor, rigged up the royal-yard in the middle of the raft as a mast.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

Straits; if sailing it can be called in a ship going by steam alone, and which had not a royal-yard to cross, or any other spars to speak of aloft for that matter, the cruiser being rigged to carry fore-and-aft sail in case of emergency should her engines break down.

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

"He fell from the royal-yard," Dorety cried hotly.

Make Westing 1911

"He fell from the royal-yard," Dorety cried hotly.

Make Westing 1909

And once, I was practically certain that something was on the royal-yard, moving in to the mast; as though, you know, it might have come up the leech of the sail.

The Ghost Pirates: Chapter 15 1909

Below it, we saw quite clearly, after a few moment's staring, the shadow of a royal-yard, and, deeper, the gear and standing-rigging of a great mast.

The Ghost Pirates: Chapter 15 1909

Our lower masts being short, and our yards very square, the sail had a head of nearly fifty feet, and a short leach, made still shorter by the deep reef which was in it, which brought the clew away out on the quarters of the yard, and made a bunt nearly as square as the mizen royal-yard.

Chapter XXXII. Ice Again-A Beautiful Afternoon-Cape Horn-“Land Ho!”-Heading for Home 1909

I also connected with our arrival here another circumstance which more nearly concerns myself; viz., my first act of what the sailors will allow to be seamanship—sending down a royal-yard.

Chapter XI. Passage up the Coast-Monterey 1909