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Halyard

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Nautical A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, or yard.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, spar or yard.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails, flags, etc.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Nautical, a rope or purchase used to hoist or lower yards or sails on their respective masts or stays. All yards have halyards except the lower yards and lower topsail-yards.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag

Word Usage

"The word halyard became familiar to him and connected itself definitely with certain ropes."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

rope

Cross Reference

crowfoot-halyards studdingsail-halyards signal-halyards topsail-halyards royal-halyards smokestack halyards ensign-halyards staysail-halyards jib-halyards peak-halyards

Variant

halliard haulyard

Form

main halyard

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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