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yardarm
Part of speech: NounEither end of the spar which holds the sail of a square- rigged vessel.
Usage examples "yardarm":- Yet Griffith and Blake followed McGraw out to the extreme end of the icy walk and poised themselves, shoulder to wind, on narrow sleet- glazed steel beams, as unconcerned as sailors on a yardarm. - "Out of the Primitive", Robert Ames Bennet.
- He was hanged at the yardarm until he was dead. - "Jim Davis", John Masefield.
- May I be ignominiously hanged at a yardarm if that's true. - "'Twixt Land & Sea", Joseph Conrad.