English Dictionary

halyard

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈhæljə(ɹ)d/

名詞

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

日本語の意味

（海事用語）帆、旗、突杆（ブーム）や突棒（マストの横木など）を上下させるために使用されるロープ

He grabbed the halyard and began hauling up the mainsail before the storm.

彼は帆を揚げるためのロープをつかみ、嵐が来る前に主帆を引き上げ始めた。

意味（1）

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

[…]broad-shouldered men with hard red-beaked faces and huge hands coarsened by generations of straining on heavy oars and halyards,—men who feared only God and the sea-spirits of their strange mythology and were a law unto themselves, adventurers and bigots.

halyards （ plural ）