halyard

English

Alternative forms

• halliard

Etymology

Compare lanyard and stilliard/steelyard.

Noun

halyard (plural halyards)

1. (nautical) A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, spar or yard.

Derived terms

• main halyard
• throat halyard

Translations

rope

• Bulgarian: фал m (fal)
• Catalan: drissa f
• Danish: fald n
• Dutch: vlaggenlijn (nl) m or f
• Finnish: nostin (fi), falli (fi)
• French: drisse (fr) f
• Hebrew: מַעֲלָן (he) m (ma'alan)
• Icelandic: falur (is) m
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• Italian: drizza (it) f
• Latin: anquina f
• Maori: taura whakaara, whakaheke
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fall (no) n

• Russian: фал (ru) m (fal)
• Swahili: jarari (sw)