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Haul :: Haul (n.) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred..

Inboard :: Inboard (a. & adv.) Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard..

Haul :: Haul (n.) Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul..

Brail :: Brail (v. t.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail..

Bowse :: Bowse (v. i.) To pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, i. e., to pull all together..

Hauling :: Hauling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hau.

Helm :: Helm (n.) See Haulm, straw..

Haulse :: Haulse (v.) See Halse.

Hayrack :: Hayrack (n.) A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging..

Clubhaul :: Clubhaul (v. t.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency..

Take :: Take (n.) That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch..

Slip :: Slip (n.) An inclined plane on which a vessel is built, or upon which it is hauled for repair..

Overhaul :: Overhaul (v. t.) To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs..

Haul :: Haul (n.) A pulling with force; a violent pull.

Hawm :: Hawm (n.) See Haulm, straw..

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing..

Earing :: Earing (n.) A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing.

Overhaul :: Overhaul (v. t.) To gain upon in a chase; to overtake.

Haum :: Haum (n.) See Haulm, stalk..

Bushwhacking :: Bushwhacking (n.) Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream..

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