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Haul
·noun A pulling with force; a violent pull. II. Haul ·vt To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when y...

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Round
·noun A circular dance. II. Round ·adv On all sides; around. III. Round ·vi To go round, as a guar...

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round
v. trans. contraction of the verb to round-up, to bring a scattered herd together; used inall grazi...

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round
'To come or get round one,' in popular language, is to gain advantage over one by flattery or decept...

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round
♦ To bear round up. To go before the wind. ♦ To round a point, is to steer clear of and go round i...

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bowline haul
A hearty and simultaneous bowse. (See one! two!! three!!!) In hauling the bowline it is customary fo...

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down-haul
A rope passing up along a stay, leading through cringles of the staysails or jib, and made fast to t...

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haul, to
An expression peculiar to seamen, implying to pull or bowse at a single rope, without the assistance...

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haul-bowlings
The old name for the able-bodied seamen. ...

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afore haul!
See let go and haul! ...

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out-haul
, or out-hauler A rope used for hauling out the tack of a jib lower studding-sail, or the clue of ...

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Quarter round
·- An <<Ovolo>>. ...

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Round-arm
·adj Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally. ...

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Round-backed
·adj Having a round back or shoulders; round-shouldered. ...

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Round-shouldered
·adj Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed. ...

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Round-up
·add. ·noun A gathering in of scattered persons or things; as, s round-up of criminals. II. Round-u...

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Round Court
1) In Blackfriars (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. 2) South out of Bethlem t...

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round dealing
Plain, honest dealing. ...

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round robin
A mode of signing remonstrances practised by sailors on board the king's ships, wherein their names ...

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round sum
A considerable sum. ...

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round about
An instrument used in housebreaking. This instrument has not been long in use. It will cut a round p...

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round mouth
The fundament. Brother round mouth, speaks; he has let a fart. ...

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round yam
n. i.q. Burdekin Vine.See under vine. ...

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yam, round
n. i.q. Burdekin Vine, under vine. ...

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to knock round
To go about. I'm going to New York and Boston, and all about thar, and spend the summer until picki...

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round-rimmers
Hats with a round rim; hence, those who wear them. In the city of New York, a name applied to a larg...

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luff round
, or luff a-lee. The extreme of the movement, by which it is intended to throw the ship's head up ...

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round-aft
The outward curve or segment of a circle, that the stern partakes of from the wing transom upwards. ...

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round dozen
A punishment term for thirteen lashes. ...

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round-house
A name given in East Indiamen and other large merchant ships, to square cabins built on the after-pa...

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round-ribbed
A vessel of burden with very little run, and a flattish bottom, the ribs sometimes almost joining th...

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round robbin
[from the French ruban rond]. A mode of signing names in a circular form, after a complaint or remon...

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round seam
The edges or selvedges sewed together, without lapping. ...

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round seizing
This is made by a series of turns, with the end passed through the riders, and made fast snugly. In ...

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round shot
The cast-iron balls fitting the bores of their respective guns, as distinguished from grape or other...

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round splice
One which hardly shows itself, from the neatness of the rope and the skill of the splicer. Properly ...

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round stern
The segmental stern, the bottom and wales of which are wrought quite aft, and unite in the stern-pos...

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round-top
A name which has obtained for modern tops, from the shape of the ancient ones. (See top.) ...

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club-haul, to
A method of tacking a ship by letting go the lee-anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails, whi...

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down-haul tackles
Employed when lower yards are struck in bad weather to prevent them from swaying about after the tru...

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haul her wind
Said of a vessel when she comes close upon the wind. ♦ Haul your wind, or haul to the wind, signif...

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haul in, to
To sail close to the wind, in order to approach nearer to an object. ...

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haul my wind
An expression when an individual is going upon a new line of action. To avoid a quarrel or difficult...

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haul of all!
An order to brace round all the yards at once a manœuvre sometimes used in tacking, or on a sudden c...

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haul off, to
To sail closer to the wind, in order to get further from any object. ...

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main-sail haul!
The order given to haul the after-yards round when the ship is nearly head to wind in tacking. ...

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main-topsail haul!
The order used instead of main-sail haul, when the main-sail is not set. ...

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peak down-haul
A rope rove through a block at the outer end of the gaff to haul it down by. ...

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top-sail haul!
or main-topsail haul! When the main-sail is not set, this is the order given to haul the after-yar...

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Merry-go-round
·noun Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; ·esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses. ...

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Round Hoop Court
In Whitecross Street, Cripplegate (Strype, ed. I 755-Boyle, 1799). !!!!Round Hope Court in Strype. ...

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shod all round
A parson who attends a funeral is said to be shod all round, when he receives a hat-band, gloves, an...

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pay round, to
To turn the ship's head. ...

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round and grape
A phrase used when a gun is charged at close quarters with round shot, grape, and canister; termed a...

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round-in, to
To haul in on a fall; the act of pulling upon any slack rope which passes through one or more blocks...

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round the fleet
A diabolical punishment, by which a man, lashed to a frame on a long-boat, was towed alongside of ev...

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round-to, to
To bring to, or haul to the wind by means of the helm. To go round, is to tack or wear. ...

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haul aft a sheet
To pull it in more towards the stern, so as to trim the sail nearer to the wind. ...

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haul out to leeward!
In reefing top-sails, the cry when the weather earing is passed. ...

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haul under the chains
This is a phrase signifying a ship's working and straining on the masts and shrouds, so as to make t...

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let go and haul!
or afore haul! The order to haul the head-yards round by the braces when the ship casts on the oth...

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veer and haul, to
To gently tauten and then slacken a rope three times before giving a heavy pull, the object being to...

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rings, to run round
: to beat out and out. Apicturesque bit of Australian slang. One runner runs straightto the goal, th...

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brace up and haul aft!
The order usually given after being hove-to, with fore or main top-sail square or aback, and jib-she...

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round-turn in the hawse
A term implying the situation of the two cables of a ship, which, when moored, has swung the wrong w...

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round up of the transoms
That segment of a circle to which they are sided, or of beams to which they are moulded. ...

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bring up with a round turn
Suddenly arresting a running rope by taking a round turn round a bollard, bitt-head, or cleat. Said ...

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haul aboard the fore and main tacks
This is to haul them forward, and down to the chess-trees on the weather-side. ...

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