Word Meanings - DOWNHAUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.

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• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• TRYSAIL
  A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. Totten.
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• ASSISTER
  An assistant; a helper.
• HAULER
  One who hauls.
• ASSISTLESS
  Without aid or help. Pope.
• ASSISTOR
  A assister.
• DOWNHAUL
  A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.
• HAUL
  pull, draw, OHG. hol, hal, G. holen, Dan. hale to haul, Sw. hala, and to L. calare to call, summon, Gr. Hale, v. t., Claim. Class, Council, 1. To pull or draw with force; to drag. Some dance, some haul the rope. Denham. Thither they bent,
• HAULABOUT
  A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.
• ASSISTIVE
  Lending aid, helping.
• HAULSE
  See HALSE
• HAULM
  The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw. (more info) halm, Icel. halmr, L. calamus reed, cane, stalk, Gr. Excel,
• ASSISTANT
  Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff. Farrow. (more info) 1. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and
• STAYSAIL
  Any sail extended on a stay.
• ASSISTFUL
  Helpful.
• HAULS
  See HALS
• HAULAGE
  Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling.
• HAULT
  Lofty; haughty. Through support of countenance proud and hault. Spenser.
• KEELHAUL
  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. Totten.
• INHAUL; INHAULER
  A rope used to draw in the jib boom, or flying jib boom.
• CHAULDRON
  See CHAWDRON
• OVERHAUL; OVERHAULING
  A strict examination with a view to correction or repairs.
• CLOSEHAULED
  Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.
• CLUBHAUL
  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
• WHAUL
  See WHALL
• OUTHAUL
  A rope used for hauling out a sail upon a spar; -- opposite of inhaul.
• BOXHAUL
  To put on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox . Totten.