| 释义 | halyard, halliard, haulyard Naut.|ˈhæljəd, hɔːl-|
Forms: α. 4–5 halier, 5–6 hallyer, (5 halyher, halleyr, hayllyer, 6 hellier, 7 harriar). β. 7–9 hallyard, 7– halliard, halyard, (7 halli-yard, hallyeard), 8– haulyard.
[orig. halier, hallyer, the same as hallier, f. hale v.: in 17th c. perverted by association with yard]
1. A rope or tackle used for raising or lowering a sail, yard, spar, or flag.
1373Indenture in Riley Lond. Mem. (1868) 370, 2 haliers, 2 yerderopes..2 shettes. 1495–7Naval Acc. Hen. VII, (1896) 106 Ropes cald Hawsers, Craneropes, Gynne ropes, Haliers, Cartropes. Ibid. 197 Hallyers for the foresale. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie 144 Not any helliers end, Hawser, booling, but soone he will amend. 1611Cotgr., Guinderesse..the mizen halliards; the rope whereby the mizen sayle is hoysed vp. 1612Dekker If it be not good Wks. 1873 III. 293 Let goe your Harriars, let goe, amaine louere amaine. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. v. 21 The Halyards belong to all masts, for by them we hoise the yards to their height. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) I. ii. 16 From the sprit-sail-yard to the mizen top-sail haulyards. 1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. 13 The bow-lines and the hall-yards quickly gone. 1835Marryat Jac. Faithf. viii, Clap on, both of you, and get another pull at those haulyards. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Halliards, Halyards, Haulyards. 1879Tennyson 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.
1770Winn in Phil. Trans. LX. 191 The pendant halliards, which pass over a sheave in the truck, on the top-gallant-mast-head. 1833Marryat P. Simple xxviii, A tail-block and the studding-sail haulyards. 1836― Midsh. Easy xvii, Made it fast to the peak halyards and hoisted it up.
2. attrib., as halyard block; halyard-rack, a wooden framework in which the running part of any halyard is kept coiled, so as to be always clear for running.
1833Marryat P. Simple xii, I'll come to an anchor on the topsail halyard rack. c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 75 The mizen cap has a bolt on the after part for the peak halyard block. |
单词 halwy 释义 halwe, halwyobs. forms of hallow.{var l=document.getElementsByTagName("lin......
单词 halver 释义 ▪ I. halver1|hv(r)|Also 7 halfer.[f. halve v. + -er1.]1. Obs. One who ha......
字词 继电器线圈 释义 【计】 relay coil 汉译英翻译词典收录405719条汉英翻译词条，基本涵盖......
字词 统一 释义 consolidate; integrate; unification; unify; unite\n【医】 unification\n【经......
字词 统 释义 all; gather into one; interconnected system; together; tube-shaped part 汉......
单词 halwei 释义 halweivar. of halewei, Obs.{var l=document.getElementsByTagName("link");v......