The 'Cambria' was overdone with canvas, but was unable to reef, owing to something having gone wrong with her peak-halliard blocks.
Wire has little or no stretch in it, and a topsail halliard is the last rope a seaman cares to disturb after it has once been belayed, it may be to lower and take in the sail.
Your spinnaker gear will probably do at a pinch to replace a brokenhalliard or sheet.
We coiled the halliard under the brush on the cliff-top, as Duran had left it, and picked our way to the cavern entry-hall.
As I afterward learned, his halliard worked through a pulley bent on a limb of those cedars aloft, and was strung in and out among the rounds of the ladder, to be tied to the bottom round.
When we all had got down to the ledge, we again hauled the ladder aloft, and tied the halliard to another piece of vine, so that Duran should not suspect that it had been tampered with.
In another moment he was hauling up his rope ladder; and quickly he got both ladder and halliard on the cliff-top.
It took some tugging to tear loose the piece of vine to which the halliardwas knotted down there; but at last it came away, and we got the ladder slung down the cliff-side.
When he was abroad, rope ladder, halliardand all was stowed up there; when he was home in this hidden vale, the ladder was pulled aloft, and the halliard made fast in hiding among the vines.
I watched him climb by his ladder, and saw him haul it up after him, and he brought up the halliard as well.
When Duran finally came and had got down to the ledge, and with his hands on the halliard was hauling the ladder up to its nest in the firs, I saw the figure of Ray up there, doubtless watching the working of the rope mechanism.
Just wrung, same as ye would twist a towel, by the strain on the halliard bolts!
Sheets in, and stand by your peak halliard to let go with a run," he said.
Foam and green water seethed over her weather bow, and Appleby thrilled all through as he hung on by a pin with one hand on the peak halliard ready to let the mainsail gaff swing down to ease the pressure.
We were on the starboard tack, and the throat-halliard came down to port as usual, and I suppose there were at least three men at it, hoisting away, while I was at the beckets.
Matters stood thus at the end of a week after the flood, when Dick Halliard was surprised by the reception of a letter from New York.
It was a mean remark on the part of Wagstaff, who was seeking a quarrel, but Dick Halliard showed his manliness by paying no heed to the slur.
More than likely it will be young Halliardhimself that will come to the door--gracious!
It was at this juncture that Terry uttered the despairing cry which brought Dick Halliard and Jim McGovern hurrying to the spot on the shore directly opposite.
I wonder if he did it before Halliardpulled me out of the pond--I mean before I pulled him out.
I don't know that there is anything better for you to do; but I have been thinking that it might be better to bring Dick Halliard to New York, that we can talk the whole thing over and reach a full understanding before you return.
It beats anything I ever knew or heard tell of; but I don't feel safe now that Halliard has the grip on me.
Then you won't have to yell for Dick Halliard to help you out when you tumble into the mill-pond.
Dick Halliardreturned to his duties in the store of Mr. Hunter more thoughtful than ever before.
We should miss you at any time," said the genial merchant, resting his hand affectionately on his shoulder; "but there is no request that Richard Halliard can make of me which I will not cheerfully grant if it is in my power to do so.
I accordingly dashed forward to the mast, and, shipping the crank handle of the winch, hove away upon the halliardfor dear life.
And, still holding on carefully, she pulled on the halliard with her free hand, until the boatswain's chair was far enough down again to go down of its own weight.
Although its musical form is that of a halliard shanty, it was always used for the capstan.
Captain Halliard cursed and swore like a madman, but after a while he cooled off, and declared that the news would kill your mother.
Captain Halliard managed some stocks for her, and he was anxious to keep in her good graces.
My uncle, Captain Halliard was a rich man, though he was a calculating and a careful one.
I knew that Captain Halliard had only to whisper the fact that Tom had been suspected, and had lost his situation in consequence of this suspicion, to throw my chief competitor out of the field.
Captain Halliardwas probably startled to find I was living in a house which would satisfy a person of Brentbone’s means.
The deed was done so quick that Captain Halliard had no time to resist, though he seized me by the shoulders.
Probably Captain Halliard had deemed it his duty to look over her papers while she lay insensible on her bed.
My tailor was bothering me about a little bill I owed him; Uncle Halliard would be asking me again if I did not owe him three hundred dollars; and Tom Flynn would hint that he was short.
One day Captain Halliard wanted to know if he had not lent me three hundred dollars for a few weeks.
Captain Halliard was as jealous of his influence as he was of his money.
Of course I mean to say that Captain Halliard himself had been the author of the mischief.
Yes; well, he says Captain Halliard had a long talk with Mr. Bristlebach this forenoon.
Both of them looked severe, but Captain Halliard did not seem to be so much at his ease as usual.
Captain Halliard was a rich man, and it could not possibly make any difference to him whether or not I paid the money I owed him.
Upon my word, it looked more and more as if Captain Halliard was in league with “dear ma.
With the halliard in his teeth, he started to clamber up the pole with his arms and legs encircling it, but owing to the fact that it was a scraped spar and recently "slushed," the task of shinning it was exceedingly difficult.
The last hoist was flying from the spanker-gaff, when the halliard parted and the bunting came fluttering down on the poop.
With the light halliard in his hand, he clambered up the jigger shrouds and swung down from the top on to the gaff and sat astride it facing towards the stern of the ship.
He called to mind the time he had sent him aloft to reeve a signal halliard through the main-truck .
It was quite a heavy pull, but they all tallied on to a halliard at a time and got peak and throat up by stages.
But though he had thrust the end of the halliard up through the sheave, he had yet to bring the end down through the pulley hole, and this called for a hand to hold the line and another to reeve it down through.
With thehalliard in his teeth, he took a long breath and grasping the stay with one hand and encircling the mast with his left arm and his legs, he started up and reached the eyes of the skys'l rigging, perspiring and gasping.
During the afternoon in the second mate's watch, the Captain suddenly told Hinkel to have the halliard rove off again as he might require it at any time.
Ye know, son, I didn't know you were Alec McKenzie's boy until that night after you rove the main truck flag halliard when you told me your story.
I'll tend th' halliard an' lower ye down as ye sing out.
When I give a signal, you bend a stouthalliard and a block to it and I'll pull it ashore and rig my end of the gear to one of those trees.
The foreboom whipped from port to starboard with a jarring shock which caused the stouthalliard backstays to stretch and McKenzie to glance anxiously at the mast.
They had the halliard in their hands, and the sail was half set, when it blew out suddenly and there was a sharp creaking.
Then Harry, calling to him to mind his steering, hauled on a halliard and a mass of thrashing canvas rose up the mast.
He found thehalliard and let it go, and scrambling aft as the head of the sail swung down, helped his companion, who was struggling with a rope, while he jammed the tiller over with his shoulder.
From deck to pin of jib halliard sheave or pin of block shall not exceed 23 ft.
When 'Valkyrie' was below the Narrows her mainsail was lowered, one of the throat-halliard blocks had to be repaired, and it was 11.
The sail is hoisted by a single halliard set up by a winch on the mast.
The stout wire halliard taking the for'ard end of the aerial had parted, and the two wires, spreaders, and insulators had fallen on the boat-deck.
You were a horrid little wretch in those days, because I distinctly remember you laughing at me when the halliard jammed and I couldn't get the sail either up or down.
Then, catching a turn of the main-sheet round a cleat, I jumped forward again to where the two seamen were dragging desperately at the halliard which hoisted the heavy sail.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halliard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
