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Haulse :: Haulse (v.) See Halse.

Leeboard :: Leeboard (n.) A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught..

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

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..

Keelhaul :: Keelhaul (v. i.) To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies..

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..

Gripe :: Gripe (v. i.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm..

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

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

Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope..

Hauler :: Hauler (n.) One who hauls.

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..

Overhaul :: Overhaul (n.) Alt. of Overhaulin.

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)..

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

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

Haul :: Haul (n.) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred..

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

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..

Bowse :: Bowse (v. i.) To pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, i. e., to pull all together..

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