halyards

The halyards are the ropes by which any sail is hoisted.

Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat Oliver Optic 1859

The taut-stretched halyards beat a tattoo against the masts, and all the rigging, as if smote by some mighty hand, set up a wild thrumming.

THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

You remember when you were going up the lantern-halyards hand over hand?

Chapter 15 2010

They control absolutely -- sheets, halyards, clewlines, buntlines, braces, and down-hauls -- every sail on the fore and main.

CHAPTER XLVI 2010

His crew sullenly tailed on to the halyards, and the strange, outlandish sail, lateen in rig and dyed a warm brown, rose in the air.

YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010

He had armed himself with a draw-knife from the tool-locker, and with this he prepared to cut across the throat-halyards I had again rigged to the shears.

Chapter 36 2010

He felt the halyards with his hands and discovered that I had not made them fast.

Chapter 36 2010

We bent all our spare lines; we unrove sheets and halyards; we used our two-inch hawser; we fastened lines part way up the mast, half way up, and everywhere else.

SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

And with pride, he went down a four-hundred foot cliff, on a pair of top-gallant studding - sail halyards bent together, to dislodge several dollars worth of stranded bullock hides, though all the acclaim he got from his mates was: "What a d-d fool you were to risk your life for half a dozen hides!"

A CLASSIC OF THE SEA 2010

In last night's darkness we helplessly listened to the men loosing headsail-halyards and letting yards go down on the run.

CHAPTER XLIII 2010