yard-arm

"This was the first time I had taken a weather ear-ring, and I felt not a little proud to sit astride of the weather yard-arm, past the ear-ring, and sing out 'Haul out to leeward!'"

A CLASSIC OF THE SEA 2010

What's Obama supposed to say-hang him from the highest yard-arm?

Does Obama's Statement Help Or Hurt Lieberman? 2009

And straightway they let down the sails and the yard-arm and stowed them inside the hollow mast-crutch, and at once they lowered the mast itself till it lay along; and quickly with oars they entered the mighty stream of the river; and round the prow the water surged as it gave them way.

The Argonautica 2008

Now when dawn the light-bringer was touching the edge of heaven, then at the coming of the swift west wind they went to their thwarts from the land; and gladly did they draw up the anchors from the deep and made the tackling ready in due order; and above spread the sail, stretching it taut with the sheets from the yard-arm.

The Argonautica 2008

He was hanged at the yard-arm the first thing in the morning, after having it impressively pointed out to him by Boldheart that this was what spiters came to.

A Holiday Romance 2007

Piles up the churned waters and tumbles them: never a yard-arm

Satyricon 2007

Then out from the semi-darkness at the starboard yard-arm, there came a curse from Jaskett, followed almost immediately by a noise of something vibrating.

The Ghost Pirates 2007

Out at the yard-arm there came a splutter of a match, and then, straightaway, a great spurt of fire as the flare took light.

The Ghost Pirates 2007

He was hanged at the yard-arm the first thing in the morning, after having it impressively pointed out to him by Boldheart that this was what spiters came to.

A Holiday Romance 2007

Cuttwater, ‘What sort of a figure would you make on a yard-arm, reefing a sail in a gale of wind?’

The Three Clerks 2004