Halyards is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 215 anagrams from letters in halyards (aadhlrsy).
1325-75; Middle English halier rope to haul with (see hale2, -ier1) with final syllable altered by association with
"It is all up with us," said Mr. Carboy, the mate, as he dropped the halyard. Half-way up he rested, by clutching the halyard and twisting it about his arm. He stumbled to the sail; but his fingers were all thumbs, and he could not untie the halyard. He was not a strong man, but he did the best he could at the halyard, and the mate was satisfied with him. Then set up hard on the halyard, using the windlass or watch-tackle. On the quarter-deck, by the side of the capstan, he found halyard and the drummer. Led on by halyard, they sprang on the deck, and pressed forward in a mass. And, knotting the Luttrell flag on the halyard, he hoisted it in a moment. Hildebrand resigned the helm to his mate, Tom Tarpaulin, as halyard came up. Here, indeed, was a sailor hoist to his own yard-arm with his own halyard.Examples for halyards