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lanyard
[ lan-yerd ]
noun
- Nautical. a short rope or wire rove through deadeyes to hold and tauten standing rigging.
- any of various small cords or ropes for securing or suspending something, as a whistle about the neck or a knife from one's belt.
- a cord with a small hook at one end, used in firing certain kinds of cannon.
- a colored, single-strand cord worn around the left shoulder by a member of a military unit awarded a foreign decoration.
- a white cord worn around the right shoulder, as by a military police officer, and secured to the butt of a pistol.
lanyard
/ ˈlænjəd /
noun
- a cord worn around the neck, shoulder, etc, to hold something such as a whistle or knife
- a similar but merely decorative cord worn as part of a military uniform
- a cord with an attached hook used in firing certain types of cannon
- nautical a line rove through deadeyes for extending or tightening standing rigging
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Example Sentences
The organizers handed out flyers and lanyards and offered trays of chicken wings.
It comes with a suction cup and long lanyard, so you won’t have any trouble finding a home for this speaker in your shower.
Worn either as a badge or attached to a lanyard, it marries the convention of swapping contact details with real-time, cloud-based convenience.
“It was a preventable death,” said Milleron, who, along with her husband and son, Tor, wore smiling photographs of Samya on lanyards around their necks.
Mr. Ziff carried a stop watch on a leather lanyard, like Captain Queeg.
An identification tag dangling from a lanyard around his neck was tucked discreetly into a breast pocket.
Dan inserted the primer, pulled the lanyard and sent the contents of the gun into the ranks of the enemy.
It was his part to fire the gun by pulling the lanyard, and as often as he did it he playfully rolled over backward.
Barney vowed to put an end to that affair, and, carefully sighting one of his cannon, pulled the lanyard.
Cushing, standing in the stern, held in one hand the tiller ropes, in the other the lanyard of the torpedo.
He got out the lanyard, slipped a cartridge in the breech, paused, and scratched his head again.
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