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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..

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

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course..

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

Crab :: Crab (a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc..

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

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

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

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..

Team :: Team (v. t.) To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber..

Warp :: Warp (v.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

Downhaul :: Downhaul (n.) A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul..

Chauldron :: Chauldron (n.) See Chawdron.

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..

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