Usually means: Rope used for hoisting sails.
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  1. halliard: Merriam-Webster
  2. halliard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. halliard: Collins English Dictionary
  4. halliard: Vocabulary.com
  5. halliard: Wordnik
  6. halliard: Wiktionary
  7. halliard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. halliard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. halliard: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Halliard, halliard: Dictionary.com
  11. Halliard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. halliard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. halliard: Rhymezone
  14. Halliard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. halliard: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. halliard: FreeDictionary.org
  17. halliard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. halliard: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Halliard)

▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of halyard [(nautical) A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, spar or yard.]

Similar:
halyard, haulyard, sail-yard, throat halyard, laniard, halser, yard rope, yardrope, yard-rope, lift, more...

Opposite:
downhaul, lowering line, sheet, rope

Types:
mainsheet, sheets, halyard, more...

Adjectives:
main, single, royal, new, fore

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Similar:
halyard, haulyard, sail-yard, throat halyard, laniard, halser, yard rope, yardrope, yard-rope, lift, more...

Opposite:
downhaul, lowering line, sheet, rope

Types:
mainsheet, sheets, halyard, more...

Adjectives:
main, single, royal, new, fore



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