halyard
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- 14
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- 13
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Definition of halyard
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, spar or yard.
“At last I got my knife and cut the halyards. The peak dropped instantly, a great belly of loose canvas floated broad upon the water […]”
“[…]broad-shouldered men with hard red-beaked faces and huge hands coarsened by generations of straining on heavy oars and halyards,—men who feared only God and the sea-spirits of their strange mythology and were a law unto themselves, adventurers and bigots.”
“Uncleat the black main halyard to lower and remove the jib cover; remove the main halyard from the jib cover.”
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noun
-
A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, spar or yard.
“At last I got my knife and cut the halyards. The peak dropped instantly, a great belly of loose canvas floated broad upon the water […]”
“[…]broad-shouldered men with hard red-beaked faces and huge hands coarsened by generations of straining on heavy oars and halyards,—men who feared only God and the sea-spirits of their strange mythology and were a law unto themselves, adventurers and bigots.”
“Uncleat the black main halyard to lower and remove the jib cover; remove the main halyard from the jib cover.”
- A rope used to extend a ladder.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English halier, from halen (“to haul”) + -iere (“-er”), with misconstrual of -ier as yard. Compare lanyard.
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