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A cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon
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laniard
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n. a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon [syn: lanyard ] a cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle [syn: lanyard ] (nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships [syn: lanyard ]
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n. (alternative form of lanyard English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Lanyard \Lan"yard\, n. [F. lani[`e]re thong, strap, OF. lasniere, fr. lasne strap, thong, L. lacinia lappet. flap, edge of a garment. Cf. Lanier .] [Written also laniard .] (Naut.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the ...
Usage examples of laniard.
Again he pulled the laniard and the gun roared out, its long tongue of fire almost touching the target.
But their real triumph was the Doctor's sea-trunk: Padeen had profited much from his friendship with Bonden, a prodigy with cordage, and the trunk now stood there in the middle of the floor, fastened with an intricacy of diagonal lines, a sort of network that would have filled any seaman with admiration: the laniards at each end were finished with a handsome Matthew Walker and the whole was topped with a double-crowned wall-knot.
We hauled off upon the laniard of the whip-staff, and helped the man at the helm.
Mowett, the hide we use for covering the laniards would be better than sailcloth, if we have any that is supple enough.
With death in his heart he pulled the laniard, arched his body over the violently recoiling gun and stared through the smoke as the gun-crew clapped on to the train-tackle and swabbed the hissing barrel.
Glaring along the sights Jack pulled the laniard, arched for the gun's recoil beneath him and through the bellowing crash he roared, 'T'other.
The flint failed at the first pull of the laniard - a frightful anticlimax - but it fired on the second and the carronade uttered a flat poop, scattering a gentle shower of grape among the Dyaks, who howled with laughter, capered and leapt into the air.
The Sultan himself had to stop him pulling the laniard of one of the quarterdeck guns, and while the targets were being towed out and the cables buoyed and slipped he capered about in a very offensive manner, openly despising Ali, Ahmed and the other Malay servants.