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To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side, used as a punishment.
– Not just convenient framework to hang the sails, but often times used as a holding post for the disobedient ol’ salts, as in, “Tie that dawg to the Yardarmâ€.
The firing of a single gun at colours on the day of a court martial. Formerly this was a signal to the fleet for all hands to muster on deck to witness yardarm execution. As well, during a keel-hauling, one shot was fired at the very end of the keel-hauling, perhaps to astound and confound the victim.
The very end of a yard. Often mistaken for the actual "yard", which refers to the entire spar. As in "hang from the yardarm" and the sun being "over the yardarm".
Rope ends hanging from masts and yardarms aloft.
Meaning that it is late enough in the day to imbibe in an alcoholic beverage.
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n.
Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard, from the center or mast to the end.
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A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.
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The after-part of a vessel's side, generally corresponding in extent with the quarter-deck; also, the part of the yardarm outside of the slings.
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Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.
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A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.
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To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies.
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A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.
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