halyard

English

Alternative forms

• halliard

Etymology

Compare lanyard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæljə(ɹ)d/, /ˈhæljɑː(ɹ)d/

Noun

halyard (plural halyards)

1. (nautical) A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, spar or yard.
   • 1922, John Dos Passos, “A Novelist of Revolution”, in Rosinante to the Road Again, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:

     […] broad-shouldered men with hard red-beaked faces and huge hands coarsened by generations of straining on heavy oars and halyards,—men who feared only God and the sea-spirits of their strange mythology and were a law unto themselves, adventurers and bigots.

   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     At last I got my knife and cut the halyards. The peak dropped instantly, a great belly of loose canvas floated broad upon the water […]

Derived terms

• main halyard
• throat halyard

Translations

rope

• Bulgarian: фал (bg) m (fal)
• Catalan: drissa f
• Danish: fald n
• Dutch: vlaggenlijn (nl) m or f
• Finnish: nostin (fi), falli (fi)
• French: drisse (fr) f
• German: Fall (de) n
• Hebrew: מַעֲלָן (he) m (ma'alan)
• Icelandic: falur (is) m
• Italian: drizza (it) f
• Latin: anquina f
• Maori: taura whakaara, whakaheke
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fall (no) n

• Polish: fał (pl) m
• Portuguese: ostaga f, austaga f
• Russian: фал (ru) m (fal)
• Swahili: jarari (sw)
• Swedish: fall (sv) n