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yardarm

yardarm noun: the outer end of a yard, often equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards.

yardarm: the outer end of a yard, often equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards
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Noun

yardarm (plural yardarms)

  1. The outer end of a yard, often equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards.
    • Sun's under the yardarm, sis!2006, Megan Kelso, “1: The Squirrel Mother”, in The Squirrel Mother: Stories, →ISBN, page 13

Verb

yardarm (third-person singular simple present yardarms, present participle yardarming, simple past and past participle yardarmed)

  1. (dated, idiomatic, intransitive) To be close or nearby each other.

yardarm meaning in Tamil

yardarm in Tamil

பாய்மர விட்டப்பாதி, பாய்மர விட்டக் கை

Forms of yardarm

Noun
pluralyardarms
alternative formyard-arm
alternative formyard arm
Verb
third-person singular presentyardarms
present participleyardarming
past participleyardarmed
pastyardarmed

Origin of yardarm

From yard + arm.

Words formed from yardarm

Questions about yardarm

What does yardarm mean?
Yardarm means the outer end of a yard, often equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards.
What is yardarm in Tamil?
Yardarm in Tamil is பாய்மர விட்டப்பாதி, பாய்மர விட்டக் கை. See Yardarm meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is yardarm?
Yardarm can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of yardarm?
The plural of yardarm is yardarms.

Words near yardarm in the dictionary

  1. yardages
  2. yardang
  3. yardangs
  4. yardarita
  5. yardaritas
  6. yardarm
  7. yardarm and yardarm
  8. yardarm it
  9. yardarm to
  10. yardarm to yardarm
  11. yardarm with

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yardarm (page history and authors); yardarm (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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