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boxhaul
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boxhaul
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.
Wiktionary
boxhaul
vb. (context nautical English) To bring a square-rigged ship onto a new tack by hauling back the foresails whilst steering hard round
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.