halyard
Collocations
4ADJ.
black, lower, main
VERB + HALYARD
remove
HALYARD + NOUN
jib
PREP.
from
Definitions
noun
A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, spar or yard.
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 […]
[…]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.
A rope used to extend a ladder.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag
- halliard
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3At last I got my knife and cut the halyards. The peak dropped instantly, a great belly of loose canvas floated broad upon the water […]
Wiktionary[…]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 mytholo
WiktionaryUncleat the black main halyard to lower and remove the jib cover; remove the main halyard from the jib cover.
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