yardarms

Just as the ship flew onto the causeway and into the towers, the yardarms on the masts burned through and dropped the cauldrons onto the fire below.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

I would counsel the same wisdom that sailors of yore used to tattoo to their knuckles as a reminder of what not to forget on the yardarms of tall ships in stormy seas.

Israel Will Never Have Peace Bret Stephens 2011

But Caesar surprised them by hurling hooks into the rigging of their ships and pulling down their masts and yardarms.

Boardroom Conquerors Philip Delves Broughton 2012

Just as the ship flew onto the causeway and into the towers, the yardarms on the masts burned through and dropped the cauldrons onto the fire below.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

In the meantime she lay dead, her lee yardarms almost touching the sea, the sea creaming solidly to her hatch-combings across the buried, unseen rail.

CHAPTER XXIX 2010

There were times, when rolls and gusts worked against her at the same moment, when I could have sworn the ends of her lower-yardarms swept the sea.

CHAPTER XXXVIII 2010

Just as the ship flew onto the causeway and into the towers, the yardarms on the masts burned through and dropped the cauldrons onto the fire below.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Of old, international sea law was very liberal towards naval intervention in cases of piracy, including the attendant executions of pirates from variously flagged yardarms.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Market Has Spoken 2009

Gone are the scores of deckhands who climb the yardarms.

Mine’s Bigger Than Yours 2008

On each mast were six horizontal yardarms — ranging from 40 to 74 feet in width — to support the sails.

A Big Boatload of Ego 2007