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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.

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