laniard
Americannoun
noun
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A horn-handled clasp-knife with a laniard, worn by seamen.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
This bunch of wild flowers, though, and the contents of this bureau mark the woman; but I'm blessed if there isn't a boatswain's call, laniard and all!
From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Cyrus Townsend Brady
We hauled off upon the laniard of the whip-staff, and helped the man at the helm.
From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Also, a rope wherewith rigging was set taut with wall-knots, one end being fast to the shroud, and the other brought to the laniard.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
For instance, the rope of a laniard or tackle is said to render when, by pulling upon one part, each other part takes its share of the strain.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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