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

Bowline :: Bowline (n.) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled..

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

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

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

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

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

Haul :: Haul (v. t.) To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill..

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

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..

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..

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

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

Hauling :: Hauling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hau.

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

Run :: Run (a.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels..

Outhaul :: Outhaul (n.) A rope used for hauling out a sail upon a spar; -- opposite of inhaul.

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

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..

Overhaul :: Overhaul (v. t.) To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs..

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