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noun
any of various lines or tackles for hoisting a spar, sail, flag, etc., into position for use.
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Halyard
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Word Origin & History
halyard
1611, from M.E. halier, from halen "to haul" (see hale (v.)). Spelling infl. by yard "long beam that supports a sail."
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