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main-yard Naut.|ˈmeɪnjɑːd|
[See main a. 10.]
The yard on which the mainsail is extended.
1485Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 37 Brasse pendaunts for the mayne yerdes. c1572Gascoigne Mask Posies (1575) Flowers 48 His eares cut from his head, they set him in a chayre, And from a maine yard hoisted him aloft into the ayre. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. iii. 16 Suppose the ship be 76. foot at the Keele, her maine yard must be 21. yards in length, and in thicknesse but 17. inches. 1824J. Symmons tr. æschylus' Agam. 59 Ship against ship, with crashing mainyards roll'd. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xvii. 46 We got a whip on the main-yard.
b. attrib., as main-yard-arm, main-yard-rope; main-yard man Naut. slang (see quot.).
1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 307, ij mayne yerde Ropes. 1762Falconer Shipwr. iii. 665 Some, from the main-yard-arm impetuous thrown. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Main-yard Men, those in the doctor's list. |