- a variation of halyard.
halliard
Britishnoun
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A big swell in knee-breeches opened the door and called out our names, when I was brought up all standing, for I saw that the peak halliard was fast on the port side.
From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
He felt quite easy in his mind, however, and, stepping forward, let go the tiny halliard, whereupon the sail came down.
From The Romance of the Coast by James Runciman
Remains of the raft were discovered, and Nina shrieked with joy at sight of the ship’s flag, hardly damaged, lying on its halliard alongside the broken topmast.
From His Unknown Wife by Louis Tracy
It had been previously hanging by one halliard, the other having been cut by a piece of shell.
From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Abner Doubleday
Not a sound was to be heard except the mournful hum of the distant threshing machine, but a peculiar clicking, like the halliard of a flagstaff in a breeze, suddenly caught my ear.
From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by John Hartman Morgan
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