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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..

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

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

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

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

Boxhauled :: Boxhauled (imp. & p. p.) of Boxhau.

Bumkin :: Bumkin (n.) A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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.

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

Lead :: Lead (n.) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment..

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

Hauled :: Hauled (imp. & p. p.) of Hau.

Boxhaul :: Boxhaul (v. t.) To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind)..

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

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

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