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What is a pole on a ship?
Verticals are masts and horizontals are either booms, spars, or yardarms.
What does it mean to Furl the sails of a ship?
It means to roll them up & tie them to the spars (or yardarms, as the case may be).
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.
What are a ship's spars?
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.
What all the ropes above the deck called?
On a ship, the entire assembly including masts, yardarms, sails and ropes are collectively referred to as rigging. The ropes themselves are usually called cordage or lines.
What are All the words that start in y?
Your yellow yeti yesterday yodelled yucky Yemeni yak yardarms yippee.
What is the name for the pole on a sail boat?
The vertical pole is called a "Mast". The horizontal poles (on 3-masted ships for instance) are called "Arms" or "Yardarms".
What are the nets called on sail boats?
If you mean the net-like rope work of the shrouds, the ones that are put in place for rapid ascent/descent to/from mast/yardarms, they are called "ratlines". Please sea the related link below:
What is a word with the 8th letter being y?
Yabbered, yachting, yammered, yardarms, yardbird, yardwork, yashmaks, yearbook, yearling, yearning, yellowed, yielding, yodelers, yodelled, yoghurts, youngest, yourself, youthful, ytterbic, yuckiest, yummiest.
How do you customize your ship in SWG?
ship? what ship?
What is the homophone for sheep?
The homophone for sheep is "shear."
What is the term that means to sink a ship?
To purposely sink a ship is to 'scuttle' the ship.
