LANYARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lanyard mean? 

• LANYARD (noun)
  The noun LANYARD has 3 senses:

1. a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon

2. a cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle

3. (nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships

  Familiarity information: LANYARD used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANYARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

laniard; lanyard

Hypernyms ("lanyard" is a kind of...):

cord (a line made of twisted fibers or threads)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

laniard; lanyard

Hypernyms ("lanyard" is a kind of...):

cord (a line made of twisted fibers or threads)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

laniard; lanyard

Hypernyms ("lanyard" is a kind of...):

line (something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible)

Domain category:

navigation; sailing; seafaring (the work of a sailor)

 Context examples 

“Walk over and examine those lanyards,” he said, pointing to where the mizzen-rigging should have been.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

To hear and see the fight the whole night through, and never to pull a lanyard or take the tompions out of my guns.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How many of them could tie a lanyard knot, or take a wheel or a lookout?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Aboard ship he carried his crutch by a lanyard round his neck, to have both hands as free as possible.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I looked. The lanyards had been almost severed, with just enough left to hold the shrouds till some severe strain should be put upon them.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He had a line or two rigged up to help him across the widest spaces—Long John's earrings, they were called; and he would hand himself from one place to another, now using the crutch, now trailing it alongside by the lanyard, as quickly as another man could walk.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)