sailyard
(ˈseɪljɑːd)
Forms: see sail and yard.
[f. sail n.1 + yard n.]
1. Naut. One of the yards or spars on which the sails are spread.
| c 725 Corpus Gloss. 588 Antemna, seᵹlᵹerd. c 1050 Suppl. ælfric's Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 182/3 Cornua, þa tweᵹen endas þære seᵹlᵹyrde. 1295 in 9th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. i. 258 Et in vno masto et vna seylyarde emptis pro eadem Galya. c 1400 Mandeville (1839) xxvii. 271 Of the Mastes and the Seylle Ȝerdes. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 65/1 Ceyl yerde, antenna. 1553 Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 13 To be hanged on the sayle yarde of the shyp. 1625 K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis iv. xv. 289 They began to run whither the wind's violence drave them, leaving some sayles to the sayle-yard. 1725 Pope Odyss. v. 325 With crossing sail-yards dancing in the wind. 1834 F. Wrangham Homerics 11 Distant were sail and sail-yard thrown. |
† 2. One of the radiating beams bearing the sails of a windmill. Obs.
| 1351–2 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 553 In uno Saylyerde empt. pro molendino de Hesilden, iij s. viij d. c 1380 Ibid. 181 In uno Saleyerd empto pro eodem (molendino), iij s. c 1419 Ibid. 616 Canvace..pro vestura de lez Saylyerdez molendini ventritici de Fery. 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 5426 The seyl yerdys off the melle, Wych tournede abouten offte, Wer clad in cloth that was not soffte. 1523 Fitzherb. Surv. 39 b, The mylner shall neyle vp the bordes make his shafte and the sayle yardes vpholde. |
† 3. Ent. = antenna. Obs.
| 1658 Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1125 The sailyards and the nippers are of a watry red colour. |