sailyard

[ seyl-yahrd ]

noun

1. a yard for a sail.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sailyard¹

before 900; Middle English seylyarde, Old English seglgyrd. See sail, yard ¹

Example Sentences

For two appeared for a quarter of an hour upon the Lateen Sailyard, and soon after, the fury of the tempest and the sea abated.

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

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Any pole was a yard, and this vaguer use survives in sailyard, halyard, and in other sea-terms.

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Jim and I were sent aloft to the fore-topgallant sailyard to furl the sail.

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