Definitions for lanyard

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lanyard lan·yard

Spelling: [lan-yerd]

IPA: /ˈlæn yərd/

Lanyard is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in lanyard (aadlnry).

Definitions for lanyard

noun

1. Nautical. a short rope or wire rove through deadeyes to hold and tauten standing rigging.
2. any of various small cords or ropes for securing or suspending something, as a whistle about the neck or a knife from one's belt.
3. a cord with a small hook at one end, used in firing certain kinds of cannon.
4. a colored, single-strand cord worn around the left shoulder by a member of a military unit awarded a foreign decoration.
5. a white cord worn around the right shoulder, as by a military police officer, and secured to the butt of a pistol.

Origin of lanyard

1475-85; blend of late Middle English lanyer (Middle French laniere, Old French lasniere thong, equivalent to lasne noose + -iere, feminine of -ier -ier²) a

Examples for lanyard

He was learning to make a lanyard knot with a bit of an old rope.

An identification tag dangling from a lanyard around his neck was tucked discreetly into a breast pocket.

The gunner pulled the lanyard hard, but the tube did not explode.

Now slip the bight of the lanyard over your neck, and follow me.

The other end of the slider was twisted into a loop for hooking to the gunner's lanyard.

It would have been too dark up to daylight to see a lanyard.

The fid should always be fastened to the cross-trees or trestle-trees, by a lanyard.

He elevated the muzzle of the gun and drew back the lanyard.

No. 3, the man with the tube-pouch, got out his lanyard and hooked it to a primer.

Made of brass, gun metal finish, ring at end to attach to lanyard.