yardarm

If we do not get to Tarragona by four o'clock this afternoon, I will have you hung from the yardarm.
The White Plumes of Navarre|Samuel Rutherford Crockett
"I should like to see your owner dangling from the yardarm," the major said, wrathfully.
With Moore at Corunna|G. A. Henty
Looking up, he saw a ball of fire running along a yardarm near the top of the mast.
A Chinese Wonder Book|Norman Hinsdale Pitman
A rope was got and the end of it was flung over the yardarm, and a running noose made in it.
Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape From the Brigand's of Greece|Bracebridge Hemyng

Not a word was now spoken except by the master as he issued his orders from the yardarm.
Won from the Waves|W.H.G. Kingston

British Dictionary definitions for yardarm

yardarm

/ (ˈjɑːdˌɑːm) /

noun

nautical the two tapering outer ends of a ship's yard

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