Yardarm

Definition of yardarm:

part of speech: noun

Extremity of a vessel's yard.

part of speech: noun

Either end of the spar which holds the sail of a square- rigged vessel.

Usage examples for yardarm:

• After declaiming that verse to us, she would add in low tones that made one's blood run cold, " Men have been hung at the yardarm for singing that song. "The Adventure of Living", John St. Loe Strachey.

• The captain then called to him to go out to the end of the " yardarm "The Life of a Ship", R.M. Ballantyne.

• Taking his station on the fore- yardarm guided by the colour of the water, he gave directions to the helmsman how to steer. "Won from the Waves", W.H.G. Kingston.