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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..

Forereach :: Forereach (v. t.) To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.

Haul :: Haul (n.) That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net..

Haulm :: Haulm (n.) A part of a harness; a hame.

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course..

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..

Boxhauling :: Boxhauling (n.) A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.

Overhale :: Overhale (v. t.) See Overhaul.

Bushwhacking :: Bushwhacking (n.) Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream..

Team :: Team (v. t.) To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber..

Inhauler :: Inhauler (n.) A rope used to draw in the jib boom, or flying jib boom..

Hawm :: Hawm (n.) See Haulm, straw..

Keelhauling :: Keelhauling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keelhau.

Buntline :: Buntline (n.) One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in..

Hauler :: Hauler (n.) One who hauls.

Slip :: Slip (n.) An inclined plane on which a vessel is built, or upon which it is hauled for repair..

Overhaul :: Overhaul (n.) Alt. of Overhaulin.

Haulse :: Haulse (v.) See Halse.

Helm :: Helm (n.) See Haulm, straw..

Downhaul :: Downhaul (n.) A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul..

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