yardarm
noun, verb
yardarm is a noun meaning “The outer end of a yard, often equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Y-A-R-D-A-R-M, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of yardarm is yardarms.
What does yardarm mean?
noun
- 1
The outer end of a yard, often equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards.
verb
- 1
datedTo be close or nearby each other.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce yardarm?
- General-American
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-yardarm.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of yardarm
- yardarms plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- yard-arm
- yard arm
- yardarming participle, present
- yardarmed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is yardarm?
Yardarm appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Yardarm in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense outer end of a yard:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does yardarm come from?
From yard + arm.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).