Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, or yard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails, flags, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A
rope used to raise or lower asail ,flag ,spar oryard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word halyard became familiar to him and connected itself definitely with certain ropes.
Priscilla's Spies George A. Birmingham 1907
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Down comes the jib and the man standing by the fore topsail halyard, which is on the weather side of the galley, is drenched by the crests of two big seas which come over the rail.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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I had forgotten to make provision for a flag-halyard.
Chapter 39 2010
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Evidently, when washed overboard, he had grasped and become entangled in a trailing halyard.
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He ordered the captain to cut the halyard by which the cook's body was towing, and also to go forward and cut loose the jib-halyard and sheet.
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Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown.
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And besides, I could tell anywhere the rattle of her main peak-blocks -- they're too large for the halyard.
Chapter 15 2010
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The British boat appeared to be in control of the fifth start when with 40 seconds to go the mainsail dropped when its halyard broke.
Ben Ainslie's TeamOrigin cruising ahead of BMW Oracle in 1851 Cup Bob Fisher in Cowes 2010
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Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown.
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They had removed both the halyard atop the flagpole at Fort George and the cleats used to climb it.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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