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sail-yard

sail-yard is the alternative spelling of sailyard.

Meaning of sailyard

Noun

sailyard (plural sailyards)

  1. A yard (spar or shaft) to which the sails of a ship are bent (tied or fastened to).
  2. (obsolete) One of the structural arms of a windmill to which the vanes or sails are attached.
  3. (obsolete) An antenna of an insect.

Forms of sail-yard

pluralsail-yards

Questions about sail-yard

What is sail-yard the alternative spelling of?
Sail-yard is the alternative spelling of sailyard.

Words near sail-yard in the dictionary

  1. sail-flukes
  2. sail-like
  3. sail-plan
  4. sail-plans
  5. sail-road
  6. sail-yard
  7. sail-yards
  8. sailable
  9. sailage
  10. sailaufite
  11. sailboard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sail-yard (page history and authors); sailyard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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