Crossword-Solution: LANYARD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lanyard | n. | A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc. |
| Lanyard | n. | A strong cord, about twelve feet long, with an iron hook at one end a handle at the other, used in firing cannon with a friction tube. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with LANYARD (5)
One of them, hung judiciously over the side at the end of its lanyard by a man who knew what he was about, might perhaps have saved from destruction the ship and upwards of a thousand lives.
And there was little else to learn during that seven-months' cruise, except fancy rope-sailorising, such as the more complicated lanyard knots and the making of various kinds of sennit and rope-mats.
When I last saw him he was still so engaged, but motionless, the lantern under his left arm and his right hand grasping the forestay and the half-knotted lanyard; his eyes staring fixedly down the river, a strange look in his face, half exultant, half perplexed.
The torpedoes were loaded shells planted on each side of the road, and so connected by wires attached to friction-tubes in the shells, that when a horse's hoof struck a wire the shell was exploded by the jerk on the improvised lanyard.
Sergeant Hayes, badly wounded, and the last survivor of the crew, seized the lanyard, crawled up the trail, and fired a last round before he fainted.
Quotes with LANYARD (2)
Humility is not just thinking less of yourself or thinking lanyard less of your gifts than others, It is freedom from thinking of yourself at all
The Lanyard The other day I was ricocheting slowlyoff the blue walls of this room, moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano, from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor, when I found myself in the L section of the dictionarywhere my eyes fell upon the word lanyard. No cookie nibbled by a French novelistcould send one into the past more suddenly — a past where I sat at a workbench at a campby a deep Adirondack lakelearning how to braid long thin plastic strips int…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).