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mainyards
n. (plural of mainyard English)
Usage examples of "mainyards".
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.