halliards

Here's a direct quote: Tend the vangs and flag halliards.

Creamy Walter Jon Williams 2006

Here's a direct quote: Tend the vangs and flag halliards.

Archive 2006-08-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

But when the flagstaff stood there with the old paint all scraped off, and a new knob and halliards, the Captain could not help noticing it, and ordered some paint by telegraph.

A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings 2003

Death to the Redoutable, he thought, and just then the French seamen released the Redoutable's main-yard halliards and the great spar dropped to crash onto the Victory's shattered hammock netting.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

The sun westered, casting the intricate shadow of shrouds and halliards and sails and masts on the green sea.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

Other men were reeving spare halliards and sheets so that heavy coils of rope were forever tumbling through the rigging to thump on the decks.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

The flames spread with extraordinary swiftness, engulfing the great spread of shot-punctured canvas, but Montmorin's men were just as swift, cutting the halliards that held the sail's spar and so dropping it to the deck where they risked the fire to hurl the burning sail over the side.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

The fore and aft derricks were huge glistening Christmas trees, festooned with thick-ribbed woolly halliards and stays, and the anchor chains on the fo'c's'le had been transformed into great fluffy ropes of the softest cotton wool.

San Andreas MacLean, Alistair 1984

The boy danced between the halliards, hauling away number by number, the obscene black bags vibrating in the breeze as they jerked up and down.

Sharpe's Gold Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1981

The boat-took released its hold and there was a moment of apparent disorder as the boat left the ship's side and four brawny arms at the halliards sent the balance-eug up the mast.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962