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The person working on the end of theyardarmhas a separate footrope known as the flemish horse.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is also flown from theyardarmduring a general court-martial or court of inquiry.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The only ensign ever flown from the starboard spreader oryardarmis that of a nation being visited.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One side has a building at the top that is over a crescent ship with a sail marked with a cross and with two birds, possibly peacocks, on its yardarms.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Flagpoles, yardarms and masts were not subject to purchase tax.
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I am not the kind of person who expects that discipline can be imposed only by having a man strung from theyardarmevery morning before breakfast.
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Once convicted, a man was rapidly sentenced to death by hanging from theyardarm.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The keels had a single mast with a square sail attached to ayardarmand two large oars.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The funnel was tall and thin, and ayardarmallowed it to support a sail when there was a following wind.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.With sloops, ketches and schooners the starboardyardarmor spreader of the highest or main mast is the second most honoured position.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is an extra sail hoisted alongside a square-rigged sail on an extension of itsyardarm.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These spars are called "yards" and their tips, beyond the last stay, are called the "yardarms".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is a single 7-inch block that is suspended from an eyebolt at theyardarm.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It also included tools for grappling, three forks, ayardarmand a spear.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The forestay is shown as passing over a small fork above theyardarm, which supports a square sail: a branch is tied to the mast-top.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is achieved using the "lifts", which run from eachyardarmto the mast some way above.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the absence of a gaff the ensign may be flown from theyardarm.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.