Lexicographical Neighbors of Haulyards
Literary usage of Haulyards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Three Years in the Pacific: Including Notices of Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Peru by William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger (1834)
""Belay the mizen topsail haulyards," echoed a midshipman in a youthful key, ...
"Belay the fore-topsail haulyards—high enough with the main—belay the main ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"il is but the peak haulyards that are *bot away, and there goes a gallant fellow
aloft to reeve or splice them again, amidst a storm of round, and grape, ..."
3. A History of the War Between Great Britain and the United States of America by Gilbert Auchinleck (1855)
"My top-sail sheets and haulyards were all shot away, as well as the jib and fore-
... the flying-jib-haulyards—and that being the only sail I could set, ..."
4. The Biography of the Principal American Military and Naval Heroes by Thomas Wilson (1822)
"My topsail sheets and haulyards were all shot away, as well as the jib and ...
The only rope not cut was the flying-jib haulyards; and that being the only ..."
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