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Touze :: Touze (v. t. & i.) To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.

Bowline :: Bowline (n.) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled..

Closehauled :: Closehauled (a.) Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.

Trice :: Trice (v. t.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.

Inhauler :: Inhauler (n.) A rope used to draw in the jib boom, or flying jib boom..

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

Hault :: Hault (a.) Lofty; haughty.

Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope..

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course..

Overhall :: Overhall (v. t.) See Overhaul.

Gripe :: Gripe (v. i.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm..

Hauler :: Hauler (n.) One who hauls.

Inhaul :: Inhaul (n.) Alt. of Inhaule.

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns..

Haul :: Haul (v. t.) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked..

Haul :: Haul (v. i.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t..

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

Keelhauled :: Keelhauled (imp. & p. p.) of Keelhau.

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

Chauldron :: Chauldron (n.) See Chawdron.

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