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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..

Haulage :: Haulage (n.) Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling..

Warp :: Warp (v.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser..

Brail :: Brail (n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling..

Crab :: Crab (a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc..

Kedge :: Kedge (n.) To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it..

Haul :: Haul (n.) That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net..

Janker :: "Janker (n.) A long pole on two wheels, used in hauling logs..

Keelrake :: Keelrake (v. t.) Same as Keelhaul.

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

Downhaul :: Downhaul (n.) A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul..

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

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

Pull :: Pull (v. i.) To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope..

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..

Haulm :: Haulm (n.) A part of a harness; a hame.

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom..

Slatting :: Slatting (n.) The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down..

Trice :: Trice (v. t.) To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.

Box :: Box (v. t.) To boxhaul.

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