yardarm
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How to use yardarm in a sentence
Overhead the yardarm blinkers were signaling, and directly over Sara Lee's head a great white searchlight swept the water ahead.
The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts RinehartExpect me then soon, for I hope to run athwart you, yardarm and yardarm, as an old salt we once knew used to say.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks | Bracebridge HemyngI dreamed all night that I was in the hands of the Americans, with a rope round my neck and about to be run up at the yardarm.
Peter the Whaler | W.H.G. KingstonHer master, as Griggs remarked, "was no d—d slouching lubber, and knew a yardarm from a rattan cane."
Richard Carvel, Complete | Winston ChurchillFour of the pirates were picked up, and hung at the yardarm next morning.
By order of the company | Mary Johnston
British Dictionary definitions for yardarm
/ (ˈjɑːdˌɑːm) /
nautical the two tapering outer ends of a ship's yard
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