laniard

IPA: ɫˈænjɝd

Archaic form of lanyard. [(nautical) A short rope used for fastening rigging, as a handle, etc.]

Examples of "laniard" in Sentences

We hauled off upon the laniard of the whip-staff, and helped the man at the helm.
We hauled off upon the laniard of the whip – staff, and helped the man at the helm.
I must here also mention a simple little instrument called _keipkūttuk_, being a slender rod of bone nicely rounded, and having a point at one end and a knob or else a laniard at the other.
The brain that first conceived the thought must burst in anguish, the heart that pulsated with hellish joy must cease to beat, the hand that pulled the first laniard must be palsied, before the wicked act begun in Charleston on the 13th of April, 1861, is avenged.
There was nothing in it, to be sure, that answered to my own case, yet it interested me mightily as an honest unvarnished narrative of sea perils; and I see myself now in fancy reading it, the lanthorn hanging by a laniard close beside my head, the book in one hand, my pipe in the other, the furnace roaring pleasantly, my feet close to it, and the atmosphere of the oven fragrant with the punch that