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单词 halyard
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halyardn.

/ˈhaljəd//ˈhɔːljəd/
Forms: α. Middle English halier, Middle English–1500s hallyer, (Middle English halyher, halleyr, hayllyer, 1500s hellier, 1600s harriar). β. 1600s–1800s hallyard, 1600s– halliard, halyard, (1600s halli-yard, hallyeard), 1700s– haulyard.
Etymology: originally halier , hallyer , the same as hallier n.1, < hale v.1: in 17th cent. perverted by association with yard.
Nautical.
a. A rope or tackle used for raising or lowering a sail, yard, spar, or flag.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > rope for raising or lowering sail, spar, or flag
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1373 Indenture in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 370 2 haliers, 2 yerderopes..2 shettes.
1495–7 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 106 Ropes cald Hawsers, Craneropes, Gynne ropes, Haliers, Cartropes.
1495–7 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 197 Hallyers for the foresale.
1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 144 Not any helliers end, Hawser, booling, but soone he will amend.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Guinderesse,..the mizen halliards; the rope whereby the mizen sayle is hoysed vp.
1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good ii. i. 157 Let goe your Harriars, let goe, amaine louere amaine.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 21 The Halyards belong to all masts, for by them wee hoise the yards to their height.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. ii. 13 From the sprit-sail-yard to the mizzen top-sail haulyards!
1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 17 The bow-lines and the hallyards, quickly gone.
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. viii. 139 Clap on, both of you, and get another pull at those haulyards.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Halliards, Halyards, Haulyards.
1879 Ld. Tennyson Def. Lucknow i Banner of England..Shot through the staff or the halyard.
b. With defining word prefixed: as crow-foot halyards, lines through a block on the lower stay, and bent to the crow-foot on the awning (Hamersly Naval Encycl.); peak-halyards, those used on gaffs and hooked to the peak; signal-halyards, light lines extending from the deck to the trucks or gaff-ends, used for hoisting signal-flags; throat-halyards, those that are used on gaffs, hooked to the jaws, etc.
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1771 J. L. Winn in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 191 The pendant halliards, which pass over a sheave in the truck, on the top-gallant-mast-head.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. ix. 149 A tail block and the studding-sail haulyards.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. i. 9 Made it fast to the peak halyards and hoisted it up.

Compounds

C1. attributive, as halyard block.
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c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 75 The mizen cap has a bolt on the after part for the peak halyard block.
C2.
halyard-rack n. a wooden framework in which the running part of any halyard is kept coiled, so as to be always clear for running.
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1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xii. 156 I'll come to an anchor on the topsail halyard rack.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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