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Leeboard :: Leeboard (n.) A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught..

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

Haulage :: Haulage (n.) Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling..

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

Keelhauled :: Keelhauled (imp. & p. p.) of Keelhau.

Lead :: Lead (n.) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment..

Bowse :: Bowse (v. i.) To pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, i. e., to pull all together..

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

Keelhaul :: Keelhaul (v. i.) To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies..

Tug :: Tug (v. t.) To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port..

Reaumur :: Reaumur (a.) Of or pertaining to Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by Reaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented.

Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope..

Haul :: Haul (n.) Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul..

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

Haul :: Haul (v. t.) To pull or draw with force; to drag.

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

Boxhaul :: Boxhaul (v. t.) To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind)..

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

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

Hayrack :: Hayrack (n.) A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging..

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