sailyard

[ seyl-yahrd ]

noun

1. a yard for a sail.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sailyard¹

before 900; Middle English seylyarde, Old English seglgyrd. See sail, yard ¹

Example Sentences

This bark that now, my friends, you see, Asserts she once was far more swift Than other craft, whate’er the tree Might ply the oar or sailyard shift, She passed them all on every sea.

From Project Gutenberg

Which serv'd him for a staff, though fit to serve “For sailyard, low beneath his feet had thrown; “And grasp'd the pipe, an hundred 'pacted reeds “Compos'd; the pastoral whistling all around “The hills confess'd, and all the waters nigh.

From Project Gutenberg

Over mast and sailyard clambered the clustering vine, and dark masses of grapes hung from the branches.

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But this caused no separation between the two crafts; for the same breeze carried the dismantled raft—now lying light upon the water—at the like rate of speed; and when at length the mast stood amidships in the gig, and the sailyard was ready to be hauled up to it, there was scarce a cable’s length between them.

From Project Gutenberg

Jim and I were sent aloft to the fore-topgallant sailyard to furl the sail.

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