Definition of "yardarm" []

• Nautical Either end of a yard of a square sail. (noun)

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• "They looked aloft; at the end of the yardarm was a mass of bluish light like a small globe."
• "They rigged a double yardarm onto the masts to which they attached cauldrons full of flammable liquid."
• "Pazel made a show of checking the yardarm bolts, and the knots on the closest stays."