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

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)..

Team :: Team (v. i.) To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster..

Inboard :: Inboard (a. & adv.) Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard..

Halm :: Halm (n.) Same as Haulm.

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..

Whaul :: Whaul (n.) Same as Whall.

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

Haul :: Haul (v. t.) To pull or draw with force; to drag.

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..

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

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

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

Slip :: Slip (n.) An inclined plane on which a vessel is built, or upon which it is hauled for repair..

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.

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