yardarm in a sentence
Examples
- A studding sail is an extra sail hoisted alongside a square-rigged sail on an extension of its yardarm.
- The furling sails are stored in the mast and can be deployed along tracks on the yardarms in 6 minutes.
- Another nearby is the mysterious'The Captain and the Purple Lady-The sun is always over the yardarm '.
- The Coyote uses a tiny slingshot to knock loose a stick holding up a watering can suspended on a wooden yardarm.
- Fer the next 24 hours, spammer, vandals and other misreants shall be hung from the yardarm so they shall.
- Aboard the vessel was the governor of the French colony who was hung by Roberts from the yardarm of his ship.
- Sure, Mets fans may have wanted him hanged from a yardarm for slinging that jagged piece of bat near Mike Piazza.
- The funnel was tall and thin, and a yardarm allowed it to support a sail when there was a following wind.
- A court martial convicted them of cowardice; Chapman was hanged from the yardarm of the day after his sentence was passed.
- If the sun set long ago over most of the Empire, here, at least, it remains resolutely above the yardarm.