The halliard has a corresponding toggle and eye splice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » What the Framers Supposedly Thought of Symbolic Expression:] Reference

I have wrenched it free from the halliard to hang for a wisp on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference

The boy, holding on to a rope, was spun into the air, screaming until another halliard whiplashed round his neck and tore his head horribly from his shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Gold]

It was quivering like a flag-halliard in a stiff breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Action Front] Reference

The natives haul at the line as sailors haul at a halliard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China] Reference

He next leaped across the deck-load and tore loose the halliard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jess of the Rebel Trail] Reference

Hear them lift a halliard shanty, hear the bosun swear and shout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-07] Reference

'I have wrenched it free from the halliard to hang for a wisp on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling] Reference

Sierra Leone, without starting tack, sheet, or halliard -- so far as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story] Reference

I have wrenched it free from the halliard to hang for a wisp on the Horn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes] Reference

The labour at the winch is suspended, a hasty turn is taken with the halliard, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Missing Merchantman] Reference

Although its musical form is that of a halliard shanty, it was always used for the capstan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties] Reference

Another of the three corners was caught and held by the clip-hooks on the end of the halliard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

Two Frenchmen, balancing precariously, tailed onto the halliard and the sail rose up the mast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Midshipman Easy]

I paddled my spar over to him and I got loose a few yards of halliard that were hangin 'from one end of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Refugees] Reference

"Hey, avast there, you," shouted Matthews loudly — a French sailor was trying to let go the halliard unobserved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Midshipman Easy]

He felt quite easy in his mind, however, and, stepping forward, let go the tiny halliard, whereupon the sail came down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of the Coast] Reference

It occupied the Frenchmen nearly a quarter of an hour to accomplish this, to splice the halliard, and to reset the sail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of a Privateersman] Reference

The yard of the main-topsail was cut in sunder, and the peak halliard of the spanker severed, and the peak came down with a run.    From Wordnik.com.  [Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)] Reference

He grasps the halliard of the sail, and with feverish haste proceeds to cast it adrift from its belaying-pin, murmuring the while.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Missing Merchantman] Reference

"Mr. Long may be after us soon, and we must get along as fast as we can," said she, as she took the throat halliard, and gave the peak to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hope and Have or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians, A Story for Young People] Reference

"Not that halliard, you careless — you careless young gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

"I have wrenched it free from the halliard to hang for a wisp on the Horn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads] Reference

" The signal Lieutenant dragged flags from their lockers, a Midshipman bent them on to the halliard and a seaman hauled them up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Trafalgar]

The flag only goes onto the halliard one way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » What the Framers Supposedly Thought of Symbolic Expression:] Reference

Do you know the difference between a head and a halliard? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Midshipman Easy]

Peak halliard blocks, all iron-capped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifty "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense] Reference

| Page 49 haliard changed to halliard |.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

"I think so, with the aid of the halliard.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference

Oh, hear how he whistles in halliard and stay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05] Reference

It is no thicker than a flag halliard. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib] Reference