yardarm
IPA: jˈɑrdɑrm
noun
- (nautical) The outer end of a yard, often equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards.
Examples of "yardarm" in Sentences
- But not together before the sun goes over the yardarm.
- Pazel made a show of checking the yardarm bolts, and the knots on the closest stays.
- They looked aloft; at the end of the yardarm was a mass of bluish light like a small globe.
- They rigged a double yardarm onto the masts to which they attached cauldrons full of flammable liquid.
- The owls liked the house but they spurned the yardarm in preference to the roof ridge above my bedroom.
- The Commonwealth Games, however, have driven me back to the TV before the sun is over the yardarm, and I note the Jeremy Kyle Show is still on.
- Gerald, in one of his flourishes, had put up a yardarm extending out from under the eaves at the east end of the house—a sheltered vantage point for an owl.
- Of course. .if he was a republican he would be swinging from the yardarm. .blago and burris both need to be in leavenworth making little rocks out of big ones