How To Use Yardarm In A Sentence
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Traditionally, mastheads and yardarms of RN ships were decorated with bunches of greenery, a task carried out by the boatswain's party in the dark hours of the night on December 24.
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A mariner's diary of 1675 refers to the ducking from the yardarm of men entering the Straits for the first time, or being required to pay one dollar in lieu - and ducking remains an integral part of the modern ceremony in the Royal Navy.
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She grinned and flicked her eyebrow, letting her eyes follow his progress up the rigging and to the top yardarm, were he settled into the tarpaulin for his watch.
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Together they swam it to the ship, and Jeremy lowered a rope from the yardarm hoist.
THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
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Obviously, if the United States Navy hanged some eyepatched peglegged blackguard from the yardarm or made him walk the plank, pious senators would rise to denounce an America that no longer lived up to its highest ideals, and the network talking-heads would argue that Plankgate was recruiting more and more young men to the pirates 'cause, and judges would rule that pirates were entitled to the protections of the U.S. constitution and that their peglegs had to be replaced by high-tech prosthetic limbs at taxpayer expense.
CRUSADER RABBIT
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Also the backyard at midnight: shirts flying, frozen in the sleet, gray trees, the mast's prayer, crossbows loaded, yardarms humming in the darkness that empties shapes.
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Traditionally, mastheads and yardarms of RN ships were decorated with bunches of greenery, a task carried out by the boatswain's party in the dark hours of the night on December 24.
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The captain of the brig listened attentively and when the words ended ordered the poor devil to be strung up on the yardarm according to British naval regulations concerning privateers.
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Avast, ye scurvy dogs, Kerry will swing from the highest yardarm!
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In the meantime she lay dead, her lee yardarms almost touching the sea, the sea creaming solidly to her hatch-combings across the buried, unseen rail.
CHAPTER XXIX
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We looked at each other in some dismay, not alleviated when the ‘Not under Command’ signal went up at a yardarm.
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Farash lowered the sail and he and two other paddlers removed the cloth and stowed it under the forecastle, then fastened a newer and more elaborately decorated sail, pristine white, to the yardarm, and hoisted it aloft.
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The bilge-sucking scallywag responsible must be found, hung from the yardarm, keelhauled, and then made to walk the plank!
To Err is Human, To Arr is Pirate
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`Well, my little Princess, we'd better get back to the party or your mother will have me strung up on the yardarm.
WEB OF DREAMS
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If you feel it's your duty to call Obama a traitor and use salty language in your proposed resolution, ie, suggest the commie be keelhauled, walked off the plank, run up the yardarm, tarred and feathered and run out of Dodge, etc, etc, etc, you may be facing a visit from your friendly Secret Service.
Republicans have no Clue what Socialism and Communism means
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Far more frightening to him than dangling from an ice-glazed yardarm 150 feet over the Southern Ocean was being unable to choose his own destiny.
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A flagpole with a yardarm, which is styled after a ship's mast, displays more of Bill's flags; visible from the street, these bolts of color pay tribute to the town's seafaring history and a nearby Coast Guard station.
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The mutiny on the Bounty is the most famous of all mutinies at sea; and it was probably the most gentle, although three of the mutineers were eventually hanged from the yardarm of a Royal Navy ship in Portsmouth Harbour.
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Budd innocently exalts, even as he is shanghaied and set upon a path that leads to the yardarm.
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It was said that an ordinary seaman on the Admiral's flagship publicly disagreed with this conclusion and was promptly hanged from the yardarm for his insubordination.
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Gore Verbinski, Jerry Bruckheimer and Russio & Elliot put themselves out on the yardarm and delivered post-retro fireworks that all the world could see… twice.
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If I din't not believe in mutiny I'd have you hung off the yardarm for it,
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Yardarm zippity up tites (hee hee hee) harts ob emninees AND oven foar cuking (erk!)
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Jaric had brailed the mainsail neatly to the yardarm, but jib and spanker lay heaped in the bow, a negligence he never would have tolerated by choice.
Shadowfane
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Budd innocently exalts, even as he is shanghaied and set upon a path that leads to the yardarm.
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Regular brisk summary hangings at the yardarms of the warships worked wonders.
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Working high up a mast on the end of a yardarm isolated in the expanse of the southern ocean, it was an uncanny experience to eyeball one of these creatures.
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Foar drinkees, bellinis, mimmosaseseses, chonklit martoonies, oar tee and kawfee for tohse hoo R wair teh sunn iznawt yett obur teh yardarmz.
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Sailors of the ship Shtandart are silhouetted as they climb on its masts and yardarms during the city birthday celebrations.
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One of the topmen, Tom Hansard, was at the weather yardarm, and had hold of the earing, which isn't a bit like those gold things our sisters wear in their ears, but is a long rope which helps to reef the sails.
My First Cruise and Other stories
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a makeshift devised when proper caulking is impossible; cutwater, which is not only a bird but the bow of a ship, or a rope or cable in front of it, or a construction on the upstream side of a bridge; and halyard, the rope that hauls up a sail -- sails having been attached to yardarms when ships were square-rigged.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
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She carries the traditional Great Lakes fore-and-aft schooner rig with its distinctive triangular ‘raffee’ sail on a foremast yardarm.
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Traditionally, mastheads and yardarms of RN ships were decorated with bunches of greenery, a task carried out by the boatswain's party in the dark hours of the night on December 24.
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Yardarm is the fing that teh sail hang frum on wun ob dem old timey square-rigged sailin shipses.
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She’d be swingin’ that lubber from the shaggin’ yardarm!
Pirate: the definition