laniard

The brain that first conceived the thought must burst in anguish, the heart that pulsated with hellish joy must cease to beat, the hand that pulled the first laniard must be palsied, before the wicked act begun in Charleston on the 13th of April, 1861, is avenged.

Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 Jacob Dolson Cox 1864

I must here also mention a simple little instrument called _keipkūttuk_, being a slender rod of bone nicely rounded, and having a point at one end and a knob or else a laniard at the other.

Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage William Edward Parry 1822

We hauled off upon the laniard of the whip – staff, and helped the man at the helm.

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World 1726

We hauled off upon the laniard of the whip-staff, and helped the man at the helm.

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

We hauled off upon the laniard of the whip-staff, and helped the man at the helm.

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

We hauled off upon the laniard of the whip-staff, and helped the man at the helm.

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

There was nothing in it, to be sure, that answered to my own case, yet it interested me mightily as an honest unvarnished narrative of sea perils; and I see myself now in fancy reading it, the lanthorn hanging by a laniard close beside my head, the book in one hand, my pipe in the other, the furnace roaring pleasantly, my feet close to it, and the atmosphere of the oven fragrant with the punch that

The Frozen Pirate 1877