sailyards

In the most boisterous weather, when the rain fell in torrents, and the wind howled around the ship, the little Irish boy would fearlessly and cheerfully climb the stays and sailyards, mount the topmast, or perform any other duty required of him.

Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People Marmaduke Park

'Without delay, once our vows are fully paid, we round to the arms of our sailyards and leave the dwellings and menacing fields of the Grecian people.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

[2] Silken cords, or tassels, W.; sailyards, ropes, in Hall and Sweet.

Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems Anonymous 1878

The hatches, the buckets, the barrels, the sailyards and the small planks are all painted red, and striped with white or blue.

Holland, v. 1 (of 2) Edmondo De Amicis 1877

They have {now} gone out of harbour, and the breeze shakes the rigging; the sailor urges the pendent oars towards their sides; [38] and fixes the sailyards [39] on the top of the mast, and spreads the canvass full from the mast, and catches the coming breezes.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847