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Definition of Outhauls
1. outhaul [n] - See also: outhaul
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outhauls
Literary usage of Outhauls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1884)
"Let go the outhauls! BRAIL UP ! At the same time, haul up the clew rope, ...
Man the spanker outhauls! Have hands by the clew-rope, head-downhaul and ..."
2. General Catalogue by United States Steel Products Company (1920)
"Galvanized extra flexible hoisting rope, 8 strands, 19 wires to the strand, for
hoists, outhauls and mooring lines on yachts and for steamer hawsers, ..."
3. Yachts, Boats and Canoes by C. Stansfeld-Hicks (1887)
"The bowsprit is also fitted with travellers, thus ;— AB, jib and foresail
travellers ; the outhauls lead inboard and are hooked to a ring-bolt on deck ..."
4. Old Ocean's Ferry: The Log of the Modern Mariner, the Trans-Atlantic by John Colgate Hoyt (1900)
"The sail is taken in by lines leading through blocks at the mast, and set by
outhauls running through blocks at the ends of the yards. ..."
5. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce, United States Naval Academy (1898)
"Man the bowlines, halliards, and head outhauls! ... At which command the men run
away with the halliards and bowlines, and head outhauls. ..."
6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"Sails are hoisted with ropes called halliards; hauled out flat with sheets or
outhauls (on booms and gaffs) ; pulled up to the yard for furling by means of ..."
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