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Laniard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. lan'yard.

2. A short piece of rope or line, used for fastening something in ships, as the laniards of the gun-ports, of the buoy, of the cathook, etc., but especially used to extend the shrouds and stays of the masts, by their communication with the dead eyes, etc.

Laniard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Lanyard.