NOUN
- a cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle
- (nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships
- a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon
How To Use laniard In A Sentence
- We hauled off upon the laniard of the whip – staff, and helped the man at the helm. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
- The brain that first conceived the thought must burst in anguish, the heart that pulsated with hellish joy must cease to beat, the hand that pulled the first laniard must be palsied, before the wicked act begun in Charleston on the 13th of April, 1861, is avenged. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865
- There was nothing in it, to be sure, that answered to my own case, yet it interested me mightily as an honest unvarnished narrative of sea perils; and I see myself now in fancy reading it, the lanthorn hanging by a laniard close beside my head, the book in one hand, my pipe in the other, the furnace roaring pleasantly, my feet close to it, and the atmosphere of the oven fragrant with the punch that The Frozen Pirate
- I must here also mention a simple little instrument called _keipkūttuk_, being a slender rod of bone nicely rounded, and having a point at one end and a knob or else a laniard at the other. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage
- We hauled off upon the laniard of the whip-staff, and helped the man at the helm. Gulliver's Travels
- The laniards of the shrouds had been cut away on both sides, and the tall and tapering mast was quivering and bending like a whipstock, from the action of the wind and the waves. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
