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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Mainsheet :: Mainsheet (n.) One of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed.

Forereach :: Forereach (v. t.) To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.

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

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

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

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