Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either end of a yard of a square sail.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
yard , n., 5.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard{6}, from the center or mast to the end.
- noun (Naut.) The portion of a yard{6} outboard of the slings, often called the
outer quarter .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical The outer quarters of a horizontal spar attached to the mast
athwartships , equipped withblocks forreeving signal halyards .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship
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Examples
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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. William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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But not together before the sun goes over the yardarm.
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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.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The owls liked the house but they spurned the yardarm in preference to the roof ridge above my bedroom.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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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.
Delhi delivers absolute delight to daytime-TV schedules Martin Kelner 2010
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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 2009
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They rigged a double yardarm onto the masts to which they attached cauldrons full of flammable liquid.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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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.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Pazel made a show of checking the yardarm bolts, and the knots on the closest stays.
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The owls liked the house but they spurned the yardarm in preference to the roof ridge above my bedroom.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
chained_bear commented on the word yardarm
Usage on hullock.
October 12, 2008