Word Meanings - OUTHAUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rope used for hauling out a sail upon a spar; -- opposite of inhaul.

Related words: (words related to OUTHAUL)

• HAULER
  One who hauls.
• INHAUL; INHAULER
  A rope used to draw in the jib boom, or flying jib boom.
• 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.
• HAULSE
  See HALSE
• OPPOSITENESS
  The quality or state of being opposite.
• 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,
• OPPOSITELY
  In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.
• HAULS
  See HALS
• HAULAGE
  Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling.
• OPPOSITE
  1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange. 2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite
• 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.
• 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
• DOWNHAUL
  A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.
• 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.
• OVERHAUL
  To gain upon in a chase; to overtake. To overhaul a tackle, to pull on the leading parts so as to separate the blocks. -- To overhaul running rigging, to keep it clear, and see that no hitch occurs. (more info) 1. To haul or drag over; hence, to
• BOXHAULING
  A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.