halyard
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Is halyard a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (nautical) A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, spar or yard.Examples: "At last I got my knife and cut the halyards. The peak dropped instantly, a great belly of loose canvas floated broad upon the water […]"; "[…]broad-shouldered men with hard red-beaked faces and huge hands coarsened by generations of straining on heavy oars and halyards,—men who feared only God and the sea-spirits of their strange mythology and were a law unto themselves, adventurers and bigots."; "Uncleat the black main halyard to lower and remove the jib cover; remove the main halyard from the jib cover."
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