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Yardarm   Listen
noun
Yardarm  n.  
1.
(Naut.) Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard (6), from the center or mast to the end. Note: Ships are said to be yardarm and yardarm when so near as to touch, or interlock yards.
2.
(Naut.) The portion of a yard (6) outboard of the slings, often called the outer quarter. Note: A yard (6) is considered to have four unequal quarters, two quarters extending from the mast to the slings on each side, and two smaller outer quarters outboard of the slings.





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"Yardarm" Quotes from Famous Books



... stood on the prow, a little in advance of the mob of eager babbling corsairs who surrounded him, quivering in their impatience to be let loose upon the Christian foe. Above, along the yardarm and up the ratlines swarmed his bowmen. From the mast-head floated out his standard, of crimson charged with a ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini
... passed many a hard night in his time; but such another as this, he would not be bound to weather for the command of the whole British navy. "I have seen Davy Jones in the shape of a blue flame, d'ye see, hopping to and fro on the sprit-sail yardarm; and I've seen your Jacks o' the Lanthorn, and Wills o' the Wisp, and many such spirits, both by sea and land. But to-night I've been boarded by all the devils and d—ned souls in hell, squeaking and squalling, and ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett


Words linked to "Yardarm" :   yard, terminal


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