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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..

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..

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

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

Haulm :: Haulm (n.) The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw..

Haum :: Haum (n.) See Haulm, stalk..

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

Keelhauled :: Keelhauled (imp. & p. p.) of Keelhau.

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

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

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..

Reaumur :: Reaumur (a.) Of or pertaining to Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by Reaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented.

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. t.) To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber..

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

Overhauled :: Overhauled (imp. & p. p.) of Overhau.

Haulse :: Haulse (v.) See Halse.

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..

Rouse :: Rouse (v. i. & t.) To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances..

Hauls :: Hauls (n.) See Hals.

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