Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A method of going from one tack to another. See
boxhaul .
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- verb Present participle of
boxhaul .
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Examples
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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.
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