Definition of haul

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

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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..
Slatting :: Slatting (n.) The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down..
Mainsheet :: Mainsheet (n.) One of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed.
Haul :: Haul (n.) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred..
Chauldron :: Chauldron (n.) See Chawdron.
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..
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..
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..
Take :: Take (n.) That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch..
Tug :: Tug (v. t.) To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port..
Haul :: Haul (n.) A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul..
Brail :: Brail (v. t.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail..
Teaming :: Teaming (n.) The act or occupation of driving a team, or of hauling or carrying, as logs, goods, or the like, with a team..
Haul :: Haul (v. t.) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked..
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..
Haum :: Haum (n.) See Haulm, stalk..
Lead :: Lead (n.) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment..
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..
Touze :: Touze (v. t. & i.) To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.
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