A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something.
It has an eye in the thick end to which a lanyard is attached.
Lanyard met him halfway, caught him in the middle of his bound, wound wiry arms round the man and held him helpless.
Lanyard relieved him of a revolver and a dirk, then with a push sent Victor reeling to the table, where he stood panting, quivering, and glaring murder, while his captor put the dagger away and examined the firearm.
The grayish pallor of the man, indeed, was startling, so that Lanyard for some time sought an adjective to suit it, and was content only when he hit on the word evil.
Lanyard caught the girl's two wrists together and, throwing himself bodily backward across the desk, carried her hands to his throat.
Seeing his finger on it Prince Victor started from his chair, but Lanyard hospitably waved him back.
Let me be," the other snapped as Lanyard offered good-naturedly to thrust him back into the chair.
A lock and lanyard, should navy primers be used in firing; but if friction primers are used, then a lanyard with a hook in its end will be required, only.
One tompion withlanyard and wad |In the muzzle of the gun.
He then withdraws as far as the lock-lanyard permits, standing on the quarter of the breech, and outside of the wheel.
When sure of his aim, the Gun Captain draws the lock-lanyard promptly and firmly.
The Captain of the howitzer coils the lanyardaround the lock.
The lanyardmay be hooked to the loop before the tube is put into the vent.
The Captain of the howitzer instantly draws the lanyard at the word.
He took the trigger lanyard loosely in hand and craning his neck to see past the bulk of the cylinder he watched and waited.
He worked thelanyard back carefully, fearful an awkward movement might upset the cylinder's line-up, pulling the trigger lever over to half-cock where the micro switch should complete circuit with the dry power pack.
Then hook the head clew on, and pass the lanyard over the other hook, get the hammock level, and fasten it with a clove-hitch or two half-hitches.
A slippery hitch, we may as well inform our readers, is a species of slipknot tied in thelanyard which connects the clews and the hook in the beam.
The next instant the flesh of his uplifted hand melted away from the bones, the lanyard fell away.
As the lanyard was pulled, those on board the battleship saw a vivid burst of flame, and the roar of an explosion came dully across the water, but no shell followed it.
It is six o'clock," said the count, taking his watch in his left hand and the lanyard of the gun in his right.
I have been on deck with my night-glass ever since you started, and as soon as we heard your guns the men stood ready, lanyard in hand, to fire at any vessel that tried to pass.
And he's wearing it round his neck on a lanyard she made him out of her own hair!
And the lanyard of his beloved's hair, which had encircled it day and night for the last three months, was gone with the little ring that Nan had given him at their farewell on board the Memnon.
At each gun stood the assistant gunner, waiting to pull the lanyard that should ignite the fulminate by means of a serrated wire.
Did you see any one with a lanyardin his hand fire that gun at any time?
They paid no attention to the warning, and when one of them was seen with the lanyard in his hand ready to discharge the piece, orders were given the troops to fire, and several of the mob fell, and the rest ran away.
Just as Sanborn stepped back, lanyard in hand, to fire a second shot, Frank dived like a sea-gull sweeping down on a fish and the missile whistled harmlessly overhead.
Yer must hev made a slippery hitch when yer fastened up the end on yer lanyard to the hook.
I sang out, recognising the voice of Larrikins as I fumbled about amongst the blankets and loose hammock cloth, feeling very much as if I were tightly tied up in a sack, part of the lanyard having taken a round turn round my neck.
Mick Donovan, unhitching the lanyard of his hammock from the hook above in a brace of shakes.
The gunner pulls--the lanyardparts And not a sound ensues.
Behold the black-mouthed cannon stand, Ready with charge and prime, The lanyard in the gunner's hand.
Fortunately the Baris were ignorant, and the lanyard was lying by the gun.
Only one fine fellow had stood by the gun, and he pulled the lanyard when the crowd of natives were almost upon him.
When the sheath is fitted over the blade the lanyard is passed through a hole in the haft and made fast by two or three turns around it.
It has a lanyard of seal twine knotted into the hole in the haft.
In former times they employed a very elegant implement, consisting of a slender rod of jade from 3 to 7 inches long, with a lanyard attached to an eye in the larger end.
The lanyard is a piece of sinew braid with the ends knotted together and the bight looped into the eye.
To the open end is sewed a bit of thong with a slit in the end of it, into which one end of a lanyard of seal twine 15 inches long is fastened with a becket-hitch.
In a hole in the other end of the haft is looped a short lanyard of seal thong.
The small hole near the tip of one prong is for a lanyard to hang it up by when not in use.
A large sky-blue glass bead is slipped on over both parts of the lanyard and pushed up close to the loop.
This leaves a lanyard 91/4 inches long, which is hitched or knotted round the shaft of the drill when the sheath is fitted over the point.
The small holes near the other end are for a lanyard to hang it up by.
The lanyard of seal thong is secured in the eye by a large round knot in one end.
The hole at one end of the haft is for a lanyard to hang it up by.
The Holtums were lingering over their supper when Tom presented himself, bringing his captive with hands fastened together by a lanyard borrowed from Harry Mitchell for the purpose.
I forgot whether Lashly or Crean led then, but I marched alongside, keeping in touch with the trace by hitching the lanyard of my sundial on to it and holding this in my hand.
To the foremost end we attached the steering rope, just a set of man-harness with a long trace, and to the after end of the shaft we made fast the towing lanyard or span according to whether we hauled sledges abreast or in single line.
Wires x, x, secure the gun tubes g, g, to one end of the iron rod i, the other end of which is connected by means of a rope lanyard to the shot c.
Care should be taken that the short arm of the side lever h is brought close into the fair lead, and its lanyard should be set up sufficiently taut to give a slight spring in the principal lever b by the strain thus brought on it.
Yes," said Dickenson, finishing buckling on his sword, and slipping the lanyard cord of his revolver about his neck.
I suppose if that lanyard had not broken I shouldn't be alive here to talk about it.
A gunner on the Clifton, standing by his gun, with lanyard in hand, accidentally slipped when the vessel lurched, causing him to pull the lanyard with a sudden jerk and fire the gun.
The artillery was all in position, the gunners standing by their guns, lanyard in hand, awaiting the final order to begin the attack.
My chum still wore his revolver belt and holster, and, for once, the dirtylanyard was round his neck.
We both buckled on our revolver belts, and I saw to it that he put his lanyard round his neck this time.
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