For on the yardarm Phil had drawn dirk and cut at the snarl of ropes, where a chance ball had wrought much mischief.
As the main yardarm of the Rose of Devon swung toward her rigging when the ship rolled, the bearded man ran a rope about the spar and in a moment the vessels were locked abeam and were drifting together till their sides should touch.
Ships are said to be yardarm and yardarm when so near as to touch or interlock their yards, which are the long pieces of timber designed to support and extend the square sails.
He had remarked the two ships remaining hotly engaged, yardarm to yardarm out of the line, and he had never lost sight of them altogether.
Had the French mustered twice their numbers, and could they have got fairly alongside of them, yardarm to yardarm, they supposed that they could have thrashed them, and probably would have done so.
Unless fellows are inclined to lay alongside each other, yardarm to yardarm, and have it out like brave men, to my mind they had better stay ashore and leave fighting alone.
They are having a running fight of it--yardarm to yardarm, as far as I can make out," said Paul.
It is told that when the distinguished passenger came on board, the yards being manned to receive him with the honors due to his rank, he was startled to see on one yardarm a midshipman standing on his head.
The captain called out to the men on the foreyard to "hold on for God's sake," as the vessel lurched over so far that the man on the lee yardarm said that he felt his foot touch the water.
The lee yardarm man managed to crawl in on the foot-rope, got into the maintop, and fell asleep there, while the gradual cessation of speech from the champions to windward indicated that they also slept.
The lee yardarm man insisted on hauling out to leeward before the weather yardarm man told him to, which was of course contrary to the order of nautical ethics.
The sight of this poor man dangling at the yardarm must have had a revolting impression on the minds of those who witnessed it, and the aversion of the public who merely heard of it must have been equally well founded.
He was ordered by Nelson to be hanged at the fore yardarm of the Minerva.
Everything had been swept from the deck, and Captain Bourne's eldest son, who was serving as able-seaman, had been knocked off the lee foretopsail yardarm while assisting to close reef the topsail.
They resumed their movement of retreat towards the coast of Flanders, but they bore away almost yardarm to yardarm with the English.
He chewed tobacco and spat about the deck when yardarm to yardarm with De Ruyter, and he did it during the plague, to keep out the germs of death.
Note: Ships are said to be yardarm and yardarm when so near as to touch, or interlock yards.
Yardarm laid to yardarm, and at that very moment the Americans poured in a terrific broadside.
If ever you reach Maryland alive, they may hang me to the yardarm of a ship-of-the-line.
The wind flapped their small sail and the yardarm wobbled badly.
He grasped the yardarm and swung it suddenly and heavily around against Roberts.
Professor Soley represents the combat of the States and Macedonian as a plain yardarm and yardarm action after the first forty minutes.
Then keep your course, and keep two lights hoisted at your mizzen peak during the night, and blue Peter at the main topsail yardarm when the day breaks; I shall haul my wind after the suspicious sail in your wake.
What would you say if we were to expend you and your brother officer, by running you up to the yardarm of one of our ships?
We shall see them, then, hanging at youryardarm tomorrow morning,' I observed.
But the desire of his heart was to find a ship of war, not too strong for him, with which he might fight it out, yardarm to yardarm.
When I return, if you cannot show your orders, I will immediately hang you at theyardarm for a pirate.
Officers with sharp eyes were also stationed at each fore-yardarm to look out for coral reefs.
Government; and I, with all the rest, was adjudged to be hung at the end of the week at the yardarm of the brig which had captured us.
For more heinous offences there was the very barbarous punishment of keel-hauling, by which the victim was dragged from the main yardarm right under the keel of the ship, across the barnacles, to the yardarm on the farther side.
Ducking from the main yardarm was inflicted for stubbornness, laziness, going on shore without leave, or sleeping while on watch.
Bucko Lynch might kill a man in what he considered the line of duty, but snapping men off a yardarm was not his style.
Actually, the whole thing occurred in about a second's space, and my feet just about cleared the yardarm when Newman's grip fastened upon my ankle.
Lawrence, in accordance with his chivalrous nature, disdained to seek any unfair advantage, his purpose being to engage in what is called a fair yardarm and yardarm fight.
There was little manoeuvring, the contest being what is known as a square yardarm and yardarm fight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yardarm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: hanger; hook; mast; spar; suspender
