What is "mainyard"

Usage examples of "mainyard".

Now it seemed that only Madoc himself, and the lookout sitting in his hooped perch above the mainyard, were the only two awake on the vessel.

His mainyard had been cracked and fished last voyage, so he had suspicions of us, seeing that ours was whole.

Beyond dimly discerned low prow and stern and mainyard top, vision was utterly blotted out by a fog of tiniest ice crystals, like cirrus cloud come down from Stardock heights, through which the light of an unseen gibbous moon, still almost full swollen, seeped out dark pearl gray.

The cook fixed the price in a passionate five-minute argument, referred it to the purser, who nodded, and then said to Stephen, 'By your leave, sir, by your leave,' as a double whip came down from the mainyard to hoist the great fish aboard.

Now Botany Bay's mainyard emerged from the spume and she came on to an even keel and started to give that long majestic roll to recovery.

Crossbowmen were secretly stationed in the fighting tops above the mainyards of the masts.

Tippoo, I'll have another reef on her, if you please He came back to her side, but not looking at her, his head tilted back to watch the miniature figures of his crew on the mainyards high above them.

A great sheet of flame burst upwards through the vessel's gun deck, setting the broken foremast and sails alight and leaping to the mainyards like part of a forest fire.

Even if the mainyard held, the mizzen-mast would soon fall into the sea alongside.

It was the fished mainyard, splinted between the two spare studding sail booms.

Although instinct or training kept him gripping the swivel gun he seemingly had no fear, no desire to gain the safety of the mainyard.