Definitions for yardarm

yardarm yard·arm

Spelling: [yahrd-ahrm]
IPA: /ˈyɑrdˌɑrm/

Yardarm is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in yardarm (aadmrry).

Definitions for yardarm

noun

  1. either of the outer portions of the yard of a square sail.

Origin of yardarm

First recorded in 1545-55; yard1 + arm1

Examples for yardarm

If you're Westwood, I can tell you, they'll run ye up to a yardarm, sir!

A fortnight later Parker swung from the yardarm of that ship.

"He'd look remarkably well from a yardarm, sir," returned the captain.

Be smart now and rig-out that clewline there to the brace-block at the end of the yardarm.

He was a pirate; and you have only anticipated his suspension at a yardarm.

Arbuthnot was hanged from the yardarm of his own schooner; Ambrister was shot.

Above, along the yardarm and up the ratlines swarmed his bowmen.

The captain then called to him to go out to the end of the “yardarm.”

The wind flapped their small sail and the yardarm wobbled badly.

You can string the rest of the bloody pirates to the yardarm, for all we care.

Word Value for yardarm
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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