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

Buntline :: Buntline (n.) One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in..

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

Keelhauling :: Keelhauling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keelhau.

Haulm :: Haulm (n.) The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw..

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

Haul :: Haul (n.) A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul..

Overhauling :: Overhauling (n.) A strict examination with a view to correction or repairs.

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

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

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..

Halse :: Halse (v. t.) To haul; to hoist.

Jigger :: "Jigger (n. & v.) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle..

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.

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

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

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..

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..

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..

Overhauled :: Overhauled (imp. & p. p.) of Overhau.

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