Usually means: Horizontal spar on a mast.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. yardarm: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. yardarm: Merriam-Webster
  3. yardarm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. yardarm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. yardarm: Collins English Dictionary
  6. yardarm: Vocabulary.com
  7. yardarm: Wordnik
  8. yardarm: Wiktionary
  9. yardarm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. yardarm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. yardarm: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. yardarm: Dictionary.com
  13. Yardarm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Yardarm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. yardarm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. yardarm: Rhymezone
  17. Yardarm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. yardarm: FreeDictionary.org
  19. yardarm: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. yardarm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. yardarm: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. yardarm: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Yardarm: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (yardarm)

▸ noun:  (nautical) The outer end of a yard, often equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards.

Similar:
yard-arm, yard, headyard, sideyard, storeyard, stableyard, yardage, yard of land, yarder, boatyard, more...

Opposite:
keel, bow, stern, mast, hull

Adjectives:
main, starboard, own, port, lower, highest, forward, upper, nearest, inner, opposite

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Similar:
yard-arm, yard, headyard, sideyard, storeyard, stableyard, yardage, yard of land, yarder, boatyard, more...

Opposite:
keel, bow, stern, mast, hull

Adjectives:
main, starboard, own, port, lower, highest, forward, upper, nearest, inner, opposite



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