Haul

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A pulling with force; a violent pull.

II. Haul ·vt To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

III. Haul ·noun A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.

IV. Haul ·vt To pull or draw with force; to Drag.

V. Haul ·noun A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.

VI. Haul ·noun That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.

VII. Haul ·vi To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. ·see under Haul, ·vt.

VIII. Haul ·vt To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.

IX. Haul ·noun Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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