The old name for the able-bodied seamen.
·noun A pulling with force; a violent pull. II. Haul ·vt To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when y...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A hearty and simultaneous bowse. (See one! two!! three!!!) In hauling the bowline it is customary fo...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A rope passing up along a stay, leading through cringles of the staysails or jib, and made fast to t...
An expression peculiar to seamen, implying to pull or bowse at a single rope, without the assistance...
Said when the wind is gradually shifting towards any particular point of the compass. Edging round a...
See let go and haul! ...
, or out-hauler A rope used for hauling out the tack of a jib lower studding-sail, or the clue of ...
A method of tacking a ship by letting go the lee-anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails, whi...
Employed when lower yards are struck in bad weather to prevent them from swaying about after the tru...
Said of a vessel when she comes close upon the wind. ♦ Haul your wind, or haul to the wind, signif...
To sail close to the wind, in order to approach nearer to an object. ...
An expression when an individual is going upon a new line of action. To avoid a quarrel or difficult...
An order to brace round all the yards at once a manœuvre sometimes used in tacking, or on a sudden c...
To sail closer to the wind, in order to get further from any object. ...
The order given to haul the after-yards round when the ship is nearly head to wind in tacking. ...
The order used instead of main-sail haul, when the main-sail is not set. ...
A rope rove through a block at the outer end of the gaff to haul it down by. ...
or main-topsail haul! When the main-sail is not set, this is the order given to haul the after-yar...
To pull it in more towards the stern, so as to trim the sail nearer to the wind. ...
In reefing top-sails, the cry when the weather earing is passed. ...
This is a phrase signifying a ship's working and straining on the masts and shrouds, so as to make t...
or afore haul! The order to haul the head-yards round by the braces when the ship casts on the oth...
To gently tauten and then slacken a rope three times before giving a heavy pull, the object being to...
The order usually given after being hove-to, with fore or main top-sail square or aback, and jib-she...
This is to haul them forward, and down to the chess-trees on the weather-side. ...