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lanyard|ˈlænjəd|
Forms: α. 5 lanȝer, 5–6, 9 dial. lanyer, 7 lannier, 9 dial. lanner. β. 7 lanyeard, lennerd, 7–9 lan(n)iard, 8 erron. land yard, 8– lanyard.
[A re-adoption of F. lanière (see lainer).]
†1. = lainer. Obs.
1483Cath. Angl. 208/1 A lanȝer, ligula. 1530Palsgr. 237/2 Lanyer of lether, lasniere. 1787Marshall Norfolk (1795) II. 383 Lanniard, the thong of a whip. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Lanner, Lanyer, the lash of a whip.
2. Naut. ‘A short piece of rope or line made fast to anything to secure it, or as a handle’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
a. Used to secure the shrouds and stays.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Sea-men 15 They haue all of them pullies,..Lanyeards, caskets, and crowes feete. 1627― Seaman's Gram. v. 19 Those Lanniers are many small Ropes reeued into the dead mens eyes of all shrouds. 1709Lond. Gaz. No. 4543/1 Having..cut all the Land yards of the Falmouth's Fore and Mizen-shrowds. 1748Anson's Voy. i. x. 104 We exerted ourselves the best we could..to reeve new lanyards. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle (1862) 347 A hammock, slung..by two lanyards fastened to rings. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast Gloss., Lanyards, ropes rove through the dead-eyes, for setting up rigging. 1881Sir T. Martin Horace i. xiv, Dost thou not..hear thy lanyards moan and shriek?
b. Used for firing a gun.
1825H. B. Gascoigne Nav. Fame 95 Captains of the guns their Laniards bear. 1836Marryat Midsh. Easy xxx, The captains of the guns had dropped their lanyards in disappointment. 1861W. H. Russell in Times 10 July, The gunner pulled the lanyard hard, but the tube did not explode. 1876Daily News 30 Sept. 2/2 The artillerymen would..have no objection to firing the gun themselves with a lanyard.
c. Used for various other purposes.
1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. i. 17 Stand by to hawl off above the Lennerd of the Whipstaff. 1797Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1845) II. 417 Four ladders, (each of which to have a lanyard four fathoms long). 1864Reader 8 Oct. 454 A small knife lashed with a lanyard to the wrist. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. ii. x, He carried his crutch by a lanyard round his neck. 1897R. Kipling Capt. Cour. 76 The lanyard of a bell that hung just behind the windlass.
d. The material of which lanyards are made.
1862Times 7 Mar., A packing of lanyard [was] put between the armour plates and screw nuts. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 24 Tarred Russian Hemp Laniard. |