10 Verbs to Use for the Word halyard

" Joe found the jib-halyard and cast it off the pin, and, as the canvas fluttered down, came in hand over hand on the downhaul.

Joe had half a mind to run forward and cut the halyards so that the Dazzler might be captured.

Leslie Goldthwaite was giving a hasty touch to the tent drapery and the gray blanket; Leonard Brookhouse and Dakie Thayne manned the halyards for raising the curtain; there was the usual scuttling about the stage for hasty clearance; and Sin Saxon's hand was on the bell, when Grahame Lowe sprang hastily in through the dressing-room upon the scene.

To the apex of the "A" is attached a forked stick, over which run the halyards.

From the extremity of New-Berne quay the crew might have been seen holystoning the deck, after which they loosened the reef lines, under the direction of Effrondat, the boatswain, hoisted in the boats and cleared the halyards.

As for us Americans, we had our hands full, to get the head-yards braced up in time, and to settle away the top-gallant halyards, aft, in order to save the spars.

Then they coiled down the halyards and put everything in order before they returned aft.

As a prudent and sagacious seaman had let fly the halyards of the solitary sail that remained, at the moment when the squall approached, the loosened but lowered topsail was now distended in a manner that threatened to drag after it the only mast which still stood.

I then got up the halyards, and loosened and set the jib; a job that consumed quite two hours.

And the Rebel gunners, holding their halyards, stood still and shouted.

10 Verbs to Use for the Word  halyard