yardarm / ˈyɑrdˌɑrm /

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yardarm 的定义

n. 名词 noun

Nautical.

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

更多yardarm例句

  1. Overhead the yardarm blinkers were signaling, and directly over Sara Lee's head a great white searchlight swept the water ahead.
  2. Expect me then soon, for I hope to run athwart you, yardarm and yardarm, as an old salt we once knew used to say.
  3. 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.
  4. Her master, as Griggs remarked, "was no d—d slouching lubber, and knew a yardarm from a rattan cane."
  5. Four of the pirates were picked up, and hung at the yardarm next morning.