- 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...
-
Stubb and
Flask later 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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fleet at the
Battle of
Ponta Delgada,
captured enemies were
hanged from
yardarms, as they were
considered pirates by Philip II.
Opponents receiving the...
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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...
-
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...
- 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....
- ten
huevos which means "Don't run away, have some balls".
Verga (lit. 'a
yardarm'—a part of a ship's mast that
holds the sails)
occurs in a
number of Romance...
