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When strong winds occurred, the yardarm moved furiously on the bow of the ship.
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What is a sentence with the word masthead in it?
When the pirates hung the Captain from the yardarm, it broke free of the masthead.
What is a yardarm?
A yardarm is the outer end of a yard on a ship.
What do you call the outer end of a ship's main spar?
yardarm
What is a sail supporter?
Halyard, mast and boom (or yardarm) support the sails.
What is meaning The Sun is past the yardarm?
It means it's late enough in the day to have a drink. It's an old sailing term: the yards on a ship are the horizontal timbers or spars mounted on the masts from which the square sails are hung; and the yardarm is the tapered end of the yard. In the Northern Hemisphere, the sun would reach the height of the end of the yard (the yardarm) at around 11 am - signaling the time for the morning tipple of grog (watered-down rum).
What is the rigging pole that holds the top of a square sail on old ships called?
yardarm - an extension would be a sprit
When the sun is below the yardarm?
means when the sun is low on the horizon -- early morning or late afternoon.
What do you call a sail supporter?
A mast, a spar, the yardarm, and the boom, as well as struts and stays all support the sails.
What is a 7 letter word 2nd letter a 5th letter a?
ballast, carjack, fanfare, lanyard, mallard, ransack, pancake, yardarm
What was the mast from which mutineers were hanged?
Regret to advise, the mast is a vertical post. Mutineers would be hung from the yardarms.As in the Captain's quote (shouted), "I'll see you hanging from the yardarm for this!".
What does set the yards and make sail mean in regards to sailing?
"Set the yards" means arrange the sails in preparation for leaving the docks/shore/what have you: "make sail" means to actually go out into the ocean/lake. With regards to older sailing vessels (tall ships, square riggers), "man the yards" meant to send men up the mast and out along the yardarm of a square-rigger in preparation to making sail. "Making sail" meant either unfurling the sail from the yardarm, or un-reefing existing sail so as to add more sail.
What are a ship's spar?
A ship's spars are the horizontal (parallel to the deck) beams that the sails hang from. And sometimes sailors. "Hanging from the yardarms" means that a sailor has been duly found guilty of some crime, earning death before arriving back at port! And a yardarm is another term for a spar.
