yardarm

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.