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Halliard

noun
1.
A rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag.  Synonym: halyard.






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"Halliard" Quotes from Famous Books



... great as any sea, stretching away to a horizon of low chalk hills. Suddenly the car slowed down at a signal from my companion and stopped. We got out. Not a sound was to be heard except the mournful hum of the distant threshing machine, but a peculiar clicking, like the halliard of a flagstaff in a breeze, suddenly caught my ear. The wind was rising, and as I looked around me I saw innumerable little tricolour flags fluttering against small wooden staves. It was the battlefield of the Marne, the scene of that immortal order of Joffre's ...
— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan

... free from the halliard to hang for a wisp on the Horn; I have chased it north to the Lizard—ribboned and rolled and torn; I have spread its fold o'er the dying, adrift in a hopeless sea; I have hurled it swift on the slaver, and seen the ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling



Words linked to "Halliard" :   rope, halyard



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