Definitions for halyard

halyard hal·yard

Spelling: [hal-yerd]
IPA: /ˈhæl yərd/

Halyard is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in halyard (aadhlry).

Definitions for halyard

noun

  1. any of various lines or tackles for hoisting a spar, sail, flag, etc., into position for use.

Origin of halyard

1325-75; Middle English halier rope to haul with (see hale2, -ier1) with final syllable altered by association with

Examples for halyard

He stumbled to the sail; but his fingers were all thumbs, and he could not untie the halyard.

On the quarter-deck, by the side of the capstan, he found halyard and the drummer.

"It is all up with us," said Mr. Carboy, the mate, as he dropped the halyard.

Led on by halyard, they sprang on the deck, and pressed forward in a mass.

Half-way up he rested, by clutching the halyard and twisting it about his arm.

Hildebrand resigned the helm to his mate, Tom Tarpaulin, as halyard came up.

Then set up hard on the halyard, using the windlass or watch-tackle.

He was not a strong man, but he did the best he could at the halyard, and the mate was satisfied with him.

And, knotting the Luttrell flag on the halyard, he hoisted it in a moment.

Here, indeed, was a sailor hoist to his own yard-arm with his own halyard.

Word Value for halyard
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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