Usually means: Rope used to hoist sails.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. halyard: Merriam-Webster
  2. halyard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. halyard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. halyard: Collins English Dictionary
  5. halyard: Vocabulary.com
  6. Halyard, halyard: Wordnik
  7. halyard: Wiktionary
  8. halyard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. halyard (halliard): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. halyard: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Hal'yard, Halyard, halyard: Dictionary.com
  12. halyard: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Halyard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Hal'yard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. hal'yard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. halyard: Rhymezone
  17. Hal'yard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. halyard: FreeDictionary.org
  19. halyard: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. halyard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. halyard: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. halyard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. halyard: Legal dictionary

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  1. halyard: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. halyard: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. halyard: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Halyard: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Halyard: Latitude Mexico

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

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