Yardarm

ahd-5
  • noun. Either end of a yard of a square sail.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See yard, n., 5.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard{6}, from the center or mast to the end.
  • noun. The portion of a yard{6} outboard of the slings, often called the outer quarter.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The outer quarters of a horizontal spar attached to the mast athwartships, equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship
    • Word Usage
    "They looked aloft; at the end of the yardarm was a mass of bluish light like a small globe."
    cross-reference
    yard  yard-arm and yard-arm  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    end  terminal  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    backstay  blinker  cathead  free-agent  gunnel  
    variant
    outer quarter  
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