Sentence example with the word 'yardarm'

yardarm

Definition n. either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship

Last update: October 31, 2015


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I showed them the new captain hanging at the yardarm of the ship, and told them they had nothing less to expect.   [Please select]

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There was little manoeuvring, the contest being what is known as a square yardarm and yardarm fight.   [Please select]

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If ever you reach Maryland alive, they may hang me to the yardarm of a ship-of-the-line.   [Please select]

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Her master, as Griggs remarked, "was no d--d slouching lubber, and knew a yardarm from a rattan cane."   [Please select]

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He is coming straight to his doom--straight to the yardarm and the rope that have been so long waiting for him.   [Please select]

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"Throw me a rope with a running noose over the yardarm there, against the need of it."   [Please select]

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"If they so much as put a shot across my bows, up goes their Deputy-Governor to the yardarm."   [Please select]

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Four of the pirates were picked up, and hung at the yardarm next morning.   [Please select]

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Ah, if I could lay my hands on the fellers that done this, I'd run 'em tip ter the yardarm afore a foc'sle hand could say 'Hard tack'.   [Please select]

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