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Definition of Boxhaul
1. v. t. 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).
Definition of Boxhaul
1. Verb. (nautical) To bring a square-rigged ship onto a new tack by hauling back the foresails whilst steering hard round ¹
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Definition of Boxhaul
1. to veer a ship around [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boxhaul
Literary usage of Boxhaul
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"your berth—wear round, back and fill and boxhaul your partner. may come to be
supported by voluntary contributions. \ enthusiasm in former times ! ..."
2. Arctic Alaska and Siberia, Or, Eight Months with the Arctic Whalemen by Herbert Lincoln Aldrich (1889)
"“I wouldn't,” said the old whaleman, “I would take in the after sails, haul
everything hard aback and boxhaul her,” (that is, back the ship out). ..."
3. The Temperance Tales by Lucius Manlius Sargent (1856)
"I'll go up to father Ephraim's and talk with him about it, and see if we can't
boxhaul some of these craft, that are head on for destruction, ..."
4. The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation by Nathaniel Bowditch (1826)
"... and boxhaul her, by which method she will lose much less drift than by veering.
If the ship now drifting broadside, is approaching a narrow channel, ..."
5. The Ship's Company and Other Sea People by James Douglas Jerrold Kelley (1897)
"the deck, make and take in sail, tack, wear, boxhaul, and chapel ship ; sees him
occasionally miss stays and box her off, heave to, get casts of the ..."
6. The New Practical Navigator: Being a Complete Epitome of Navigation: to by John Hamilton Moore (1810)
"Immediately boxhaul live ship round on her heel, so as to bring the wind so far
aft, that the ship may be steered close under the enemy's stern, ..."
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