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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Hauls :: Hauls (n.) See Hals.

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)..

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..

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

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

Helm :: Helm (n.) See Haulm, straw..

Hawm :: Hawm (n.) See Haulm, straw..

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..

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

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns..

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

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

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

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