yardarm
/yahrd-ahrm/US // ˈyɑrdˌɑrm //UK // (ˈjɑːdˌɑːm) //
码农,院子,码表,院子里
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Nautical.
- : either of the outer portions of the yard of a square sail.
Examples
Overhead the yardarm blinkers were signaling, and directly over Sara Lee's head a great white searchlight swept the water ahead.
Expect me then soon, for I hope to run athwart you, yardarm and yardarm, as an old salt we once knew used to say.
I dreamed all night that I was in the hands of the Americans, with a rope round my neck and about to be run up at the yardarm.
Her master, as Griggs remarked, "was no d—d slouching lubber, and knew a yardarm from a rattan cane."
Four of the pirates were picked up, and hung at the yardarm next morning.
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