The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Lanyards

Sea Terms

A rope rove through dead eyes in setting up rigging; a rope made fast to anything for securing it, as the lanyards of the davit guys. (See Knife Lanyard and Bucket Lanyard.)

A fully rigged mast, with the names of its thirty-four parts
A fully rigged mast, with the names of its thirty-four parts
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