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yard·arm  (yärdärm)

n. Nautical

Either end of a yard of a square sail.

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yardarm

Noun

Naut the outer end of a ship's yard

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Noun

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yardarm - either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship yard - a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen end, terminal - either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"; "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix"