sailyard

Definitions

noun nautical A yard to which the sails of a ship are bent.
noun obsolete One of the structural arms of a windmill to which the vanes or sails are attached.
noun entomology, obsolete An antenna of an insect.

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Over mast and sailyard clambered the clustering vine, and dark masses of grapes hung from the branches.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
But this caused no separation between the two crafts; for the same breeze carried the dismantled raft -- now lying light upon the water -- at the like rate of speed; and when at length the mast stood amidships in the gig, and the sailyard was ready to be hauled up to it, there was scarce a cable's length between them.

The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850
Jim and I were sent aloft to the fore-topgallant sailyard to furl the sail.

Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
Anticipating this, and resolving, whatever might happen, to fight her to the last, I had made the mate, a staunch-hearted, resolute fellow, to make fast the signal sailyard aloft, so that it was impossible for any one on deck to lower the bunting.

Charles O'Malley — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839