Definition of haul

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

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Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope..
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..
Haul :: Haul (v. t.) To pull or draw with force; to drag.
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..
Haul :: Haul (n.) Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul..
Boxhauled :: Boxhauled (imp. & p. p.) of Boxhau.
Brail :: Brail (v. t.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail..
Haul :: Haul (v. t.) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked..
Haul :: Haul (n.) A pulling with force; a violent pull.
Inhaul :: Inhaul (n.) Alt. of Inhaule.
Trice :: Trice (v. t.) To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.
Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns..
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 (n.) A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul..
Take :: Take (n.) That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch..
Haum :: Haum (n.) See Haulm, stalk..
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)..
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..
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..
Whaul :: Whaul (n.) Same as Whall.
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