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Veer square-rigger sharply
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boxhaul
Word definitions for boxhaul in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context nautical English) To bring a square-rigged ship onto a new tack by hauling back the foresails whilst steering hard round
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boxhaul \Box"haul`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boxhauled .] (Naut.) 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). --Totten.
Usage examples of boxhaul.
For three days they had been boxhauling the yards about to no purpose, and it was sickening work running stunsail-booms out to airs that died in their struggles to reach us.