Definition of Yardarm. Meaning of Yardarm. Synonyms of Yardarm

- yard, extending from the slings to the ****ings for the lifts and braces. Yardarms The outermost tips of the yard: outboard from the attachments for the lifts...
- flown on a yardarm over every park in New York City, alongside the city flag and beneath the flag of the United States of America. These yardarms were controversial...
- was the pirate with most captures during the Golden Age of Piracy. He is now known for hanging the governor of Martinique from the yardarm of his ship....
- spars are called yards and their tips, outside the lifts, are called the yardarms. A ship mainly rigged so is called a square-rigger. In 'Jackspeak' (Royal...
- converted into a fish factory ship. In 1985, Yardarm Knot Inc. was incorporated to acquire M/V Yardarm Knot, which had been sitting idle in Lake Washington...
- customarily worn at the foremasthead of multi-masted vessels, the dockside yardarm or crosstree of the mast of single-masted vessels, while the house flag...
- The Z flag (upper left) is still flown daily from the signal yardarm of Mikasa, now a museum ship...
- could otherwise have expected to be ransomed – was hanged from his own yardarm. Edward saw God's hand in his victory and a triumphal coin was struck in...
- ship on each side above the waterline. Underdeck: a lower deck of a ship. Yardarm: an end of a yard spar below a sail. Waterline: where the water surface...
- twins. Stubb and Flask kill a right whale whose head is fastened to a yardarm opposite the sperm whale's head. Ishmael compares the two heads in a philosophical...