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 […]
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Halyard
//ˈhæljə(ɹ)d//
Synonyms for "halyard" (3 found)
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5 entriesTranslations
22 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- фал noun (rope)
Catalan
1 entries- drissa noun (rope)
Danish
1 entries- fald noun (rope)
Dutch
2 entries- val noun (rope)
- vlaggenlijn noun (rope)
Finnish
2 entries- falli noun (rope)
- nostin noun (rope)
French
1 entries- drisse noun (rope)
German
1 entries- Fall noun (rope)
Hebrew
1 entries- מַעֲלָן noun (rope)
Icelandic
1 entries- falur noun (rope)
Italian
1 entries- drizza noun (rope)
Latin
1 entries- anquina noun (rope)
Māori
2 entries- taura whakaara noun (rope)
- whakaheke noun (rope)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fall noun (rope)
Polish
1 entries- fał noun (rope)
Portuguese
2 entries- austaga noun (rope)
- ostaga noun (rope)
Russian
1 entries- фал noun (rope)
Swahili
1 entries- jarari noun (rope)
Swedish
1 entries- fall noun (rope)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
[…]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.
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Uncleat the black main halyard to lower and remove the jib cover; remove the main halyard from the jib cover.
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