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halliard

halliard is the alternative spelling of halyard.

Meaning of halyard

Noun

halyard (plural halyards)

  1. A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, spar or yard.
    • At last I got my knife and cut the halyards. The peak dropped instantly, a great belly of loose canvas floated broad upon the water […]1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
  2. A rope used to extend a ladder.

Forms of halliard

pluralhalliards

Questions about halliard

What is halliard the alternative spelling of?
Halliard is the alternative spelling of halyard.

Words near halliard in the dictionary

  1. Hallgren syndrome
  2. Hallgrens
  3. hallhouse
  4. hallhouses
  5. Hallian
  6. halliard
  7. halliards
  8. halliblash
  9. Halliburton
  10. Halliburtons
  11. hallibut

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Adapted from Wiktionary: halliard (page history and authors); halyard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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