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Haulm :: Haulm (n.) The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw..

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..

Brail :: Brail (v. t.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail..

Touze :: Touze (v. t. & i.) To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.

Haul :: Haul (n.) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred..

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns..

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

Clubhaul :: Clubhaul (v. t.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency..

Chauldron :: Chauldron (n.) See Chawdron.

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

Overhaul :: Overhaul (v. t.) To gain upon in a chase; to overtake.

Earing :: Earing (n.) A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing.

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

Hauling :: Hauling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hau.

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..

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

Slatting :: Slatting (n.) The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down..

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

Haul :: Haul (v. i.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t..

Halm :: Halm (n.) Same as Haulm.

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