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sailyard
[ seyl-yahrd ]
noun
- a yard for a sail.
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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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