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Sprocket Wheel :: Spritsail (n.) A sail formerly hung under the bowsprit, from the spritsail yard..

Brickyard :: Brickyard (n.) A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place..

Halliard :: Halliard (n.) See Halyard.

Finger :: Finger (n.) The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard..

Cockbill :: Cockbill (v. t.) To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning..

Acockbill :: Acockbill (adv.) Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

Stere :: Stere (n.) A unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.3 cubic feet, or nearly 1/ cubic yards..

Weighbeam :: Weighbeam (n.) A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise; -- also called weighmaster's beam.

Dungyard :: Dungyard (n.) A yard where dung is collected.

Six :: Six (a.) One more than five; twice three; as, six yards..

Necropolis :: Necropolis (n.) A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard..

Amain :: Amain (v. t.) To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc..

Foresail :: Foresail (n.) The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast..

Brace :: Brace (n.) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon..

Arm :: Arm (n.) The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke..

Long :: Long (superl.) Extended to any specified measure; of a specified length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc..

Wair :: Wair (n.) A piece of plank two yard/ long and a foot broad.

Quirk :: Quirk (n.) A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink..

Courtyard :: Courtyard (n.) A court or inclosure attached to a house.

Dooryard :: Dooryard (n.) A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.

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