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Overhaul :: Overhaul (v. t.) To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs..

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

Inboard :: Inboard (a. & adv.) Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard..

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..

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom..

Box :: Box (v. t.) To boxhaul.

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..

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

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..

Outhaul :: Outhaul (n.) A rope used for hauling out a sail upon a spar; -- opposite of inhaul.

Haul :: Haul (v. t.) To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill..

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing..

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..

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

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

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

Team :: Team (v. i.) To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster..

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

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

Trice :: Trice (v. t.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.

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