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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..

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..

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

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..

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..

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..

Haul :: Haul (n.) A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul..

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

Janker :: "Janker (n.) A long pole on two wheels, used in hauling logs..

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

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

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..

Haulse :: Haulse (v.) See Halse.

Overhauling :: Overhauling () of Overhau.

Inhaul :: Inhaul (n.) Alt. of Inhaule.

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

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

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..

Slatting :: Slatting (n.) The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down..

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

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