sailyard

English

Etymology

sail +‎ yard

Noun

sailyard (plural sailyards)

1. (nautical) A yard to which the sails of a ship are bent.
2. (obsolete) One of the structural arms of a windmill to which the vanes or sails are attached.
3. (entomology, obsolete) An antenna of an insect.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “sailyard”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.