How To Use Halliard In A Sentence
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The ebb caught the boat and hurried her quietly out into the stream; Focquet was heaving on a halliard forward and the heavy nut-brown sail crept slowly up the mast.
Pied Piper
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The bending of the staysail was no very serious matter; it simply meant letting go the halliards, dragging upon the downhaul, cutting the boltrope away from the hanks, passing the new seizings, hoisting the sail foot by foot until I had got all the seizings finished, bending the sheets afresh, and there we were.
The Castaways
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Two lengths of the main-topsail halliards; he had to keep his head clear to prevent his fumbling fingers from entangling them.
Hornblower In The West Indies
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No sooner, too, had the hands jumped into the rigging and the studdingsail halliards and tacks been cast off by the watch on deck and the downhauls and sheets manned, than the "first luff," pitching his voice to yet a higher key, sang out in rapid sequence, "Topmast stu'ns'l downhaul -- haul taut -- clew up -- all down!
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
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The cable was then well stoppered at the "bitts," and unshackled; and two men stationed at the stopper, with axes, and the order to cut the lashings, instantly, when so ordered; the fore-staysail was loosed, and hands stationed at the halliards; and the chief engineer directed to keep up a full head of steam.
The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
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So saying, I hurried away forward, letting go the trysail outhaul and the main-topsail halliards on my way; passing next to the fore-topsail halliards, which I also let run.
The Castaways
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The halliard has a corresponding toggle and eye splice.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What the Framers Supposedly Thought of Symbolic Expression:
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Jacko was found guilty of these two charges by the steward and helmsman, (whose pipe Jacko had also committed to the waters of the Scaggerack,) and ordered to the mast-head; and there he remained for three hours sitting close to the jaws of the gaff, and chattering, without cessation, his annoyances to the gaff halliard blocks.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
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Davy's leg between the rudder beam and the wheel post, while Johnny lay sprawling on the deck, holding on like grim death to a stray end of the mizzen-halliard that had been cast loose from the cleats.
Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
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He swung upon the halliard to tighten the luff; then she laid the boat off on her course towards the Solent, slacked sheet and runner, and settled down at the helm.
What Happened to the Corbetts
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A staysail halliard parted and the sail drifted down to drag in the sea until a rush of seamen went forrard along the bowsprit to pull it in and attach a new halliard.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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The boy, holding on to a rope, was spun into the air, screaming until another halliard whiplashed round his neck and tore his head horribly from his shoulders.
Sharpe's Gold
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I have wrenched it free from the halliard to hang for a wisp on the
Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys
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Thole-pins shred where the oar leans, grommets renewed, tallowed: halliards frapped to the shrouds.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In that silence, of which the boom of the tide was an orderly part, I caught the clear "_kiss -- kiss -- kiss_" of the halliards on the roof, as they were blown against the installation - pole.
Traffics and Discoveries
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Care was taken, however, this time to make fast the halliard rope with a proper "belay"; and although Snowball might have deserved a caution to be more vigilant for the future, it was not deemed necessary to administer it, as it was thought the peril out of which they had so miraculously escaped would prove to him a sufficient reminder.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
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The fore-staysail, which had only recently been hoisted when the studding-sails were set, being now found to be in the way of getting in the anchors, as it prevented the hands from working freely, Mr Marline ordered the downhaul to be manned as soon as the halliards were cast - off.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea
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The sun westered, casting the intricate shadow of shrouds and halliards and sails and masts on the green sea.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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He hitched the slack of the halliard to the bridge rail and puckered his eyes, staring across the waters of the harbour to where the roofs of houses showed among the trees.
A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions
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When the throat halliard is belayed, hoist the peak until deep, full wrinkles appear in the throat of the sail.
