main-topsail haul!

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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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• Topsail

  ·noun In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the ...

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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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• Main

  ·adj Vast; huge. II. Main ·noun A main-hamper. III. Main ·adj Important; necessary. IV. Main ·nou...

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• main

  very; main good, very good. Also the chief; madam's the main, i. e. madam is the chief or ruler. C. ...

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• main

  A continent or mainland. Also, figuratively, the ocean. ...

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• Fore-topsail

  ·noun ·see <<Sail>>. ...

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• Gaff-topsail

  ·noun A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast. ...

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• gaff-topsail

  A light triangular or quadrilateral sail, the head being extended on a small gaff which hoists on th...

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• jib-topsail

  A light sail set on the topmost stay of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...

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• middle-topsail

  A deep-roached sail, set in some schooners and sloops on the heel of their top-masts between the top...

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• topsail-schooner

  Is full schooner-rigged, but carries a square-topsail on the fore-mast; the fore-sail not bent, but ...

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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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• haul round

  Said when the wind is gradually shifting towards any particular point of the compass. Edging round a...

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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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• Main yard

  ·- The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast. ...

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• Main-gauche

  ·noun The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; — used to parry thru...

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• Main-hamper

  ·noun A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press. ...

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• Main-sail

  (Gr. artemon), answering to the modern "mizzen-sail," as some suppose. Others understand the "jib," ...

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• main-body

  The body of troops that marches between the advance-guard and the rear-guard of an army. ...

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• main-boom

  The spar which stretches the foot of the boom-mainsail in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...

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• main-brace

  A purchase attached to the main-yard for trimming it to the wind. ...

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• main-breadth

  The broadest part of a ship at any particular timber or frame, distinguished by upper and lower heig...

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• main-capstan

  The after one, as distinguished from the jeer-capstan. ...

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• main-course

  The main-sail. ...

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• main-guard

  The principal guard of a garrison town, usually posted in the place-of-arms, or the market-place. ...

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• main-hold

  That part of a ship's hold which lies near the main-hatch. ...

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• main-ice

  A body of impenetrable ice apparently detached from the land, but immovable; between which and the l...

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• main-jeers

  Jeers for swaying up the main-yard. ...

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• main-keel

  The principal keel, as distinguished from the false-keel and the keelson. ...

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• main-piece

  The strong horizontal beam of the windlass, supported at the ends by iron spindles in the windlass-b...

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• main-post

  The stern-post, as distinguished from the false-post and inner-post. ...

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• main-sail

  This, in a square-rigged vessel, is distinguished by the so-termed square main-sail; in a fore-and-a...

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• main-shaft

  The principal shaft in machinery. ...

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• main-spring

  The source of continuous motion in a time-keeper. Also, that part of a musket-lock which is sunk int...

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• main-staysail

  A storm-sail set between the fore and main masts. ...

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• main-tackle

  A large and strong tackle, hooked occasionally upon the main pendant, and used for various purposes,...

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• main-transom

  A term often applied to the wing-transom (which see). ...

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• main-wales

  The lower wales, which are generally placed on the lower breadth, and so that the main-deck knee-bol...

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• square-topsail sloop

  Sloops which carry standing yards. ...

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• topsail-sheet bitts

  Standing bitt-heads through which the topsail-sheets lead, and to which they are belayed. ...

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• tubs, topsail-halliard

  Circular framed racks in which the topsail-halliards are coiled clear for running, and are prevented...

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• two-topsail-schooner

  See topsail-schooner. ...

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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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• 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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• 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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• coup de main

  A sudden and vigorous attack. ...

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• main royal-mast

  That above the main topgallant-mast. ...

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• main-tack block

  A block forming part of the purchase used for hauling the main-tack down to. ...

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• main-tackle pendant

  A stout piece of rope with a hook in one end, and a thimble in the other, sometimes used for hauling...

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• main-top bowline

  The bowline of the main-topsail. It is used to haul the weather-leech forward when on a wind, which ...

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• main-yard men

  Those in the doctor's list. ...

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• square main-sail

  See main-sail. ...

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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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• fill the main-yard

  An order well understood to mean, fill the main-topsail, after it has been aback, or the ship hove-t...

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• splice the main brace

  In nautical parlance, to serve out an extra allowance of grog in bad weather or after severe exertio...

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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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• main-piece of the rudder

  The rudder-stock, or piece which is connected by the rudder-bands to the stern-post. ...

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• mate of the main-deck

  The officer appointed to superintend all the duties to be executed upon the main-deck during the day...

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• stay-tackles, fore and main

  Special movable purchases for hoisting in and out boats, anchors, &c. They plumb the fore and main h...

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• as deaf as the main-mast

  Said of one who does not readily catch an order given. Thus at sea the main-mast is synonymous with ...

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