mizen-yard Naut.
The yard on which the mizen-sail is extended.
| 1485 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 49 Meson yerdes..ij. 1564 in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pl. Crt. Admir. (Selden) II. 129 Item a bade smalle bote of two toune and a myssyne yerde vjs viij{supd}. 1627 Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. iii. 17 You must allow the Misen Yard and Spretsaile Yard ½ inch of thicknesse to a yard in length. 1786 Cumberland Observer No. 23 I. 224, I would hang him at the mizen yard. |