yardarm
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of yardarm
Example Sentences
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The sun’s over the yardarm if I’m not cruelly mistaken.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
As we'd sailed here, I'd been up there, out on the yardarm hauling up a sail.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2021
So in that sense, the round of the first day belonged either to Zach Johnson or Danny Willett: they both shot 66 with the sun well over the yardarm and the elements doing their worst.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2015
Of course that would be the yardarm, matey.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2015
She’d been thinking about herself, not Nico, but she followed Frank’s gaze to the top of the foremast, where Nico was perched on the yardarm.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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