noun
definition
A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, spar or yard.
Examples of halyard in a Sentence
The flagpole has an internal halyard which is accessible only through a small lockable cover.
Have an equivalent mark for each of your jib halyard settings.
Echo took fourth place but Bertie retired after losing her spinnaker halyard up the mast.
Why not use the after flange for a crane for the throat halyard?
In theory, too, the peak halyard should be pulling at right angles to the gaff.
Originally the main halyard sheave was attached to the stainless steel ring at the top of the mast.
Finally, which knot would a Scout usually use to tie the halyard to the Union Flag?
Now he lay in a tangled heap amid the main halyard.
Like BP, it has suffered a broken genoa halyard, dumping the sail on the deck.
The spinnaker halyard is used to lift the jib to a halyard lock.