Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rope used to extend a sail along a spar or boom.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a rope used to haul out the tack of a jib or lower studdingsail, or the clue of a spanker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A rope used for hauling out a sail upon a spar; -- opposite of
inhaul .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A
rope that is used to extend asail along aspar
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Examples
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a sheet, but by an "outhaul," and kept in position not by a "brace," but by the "sheet," and thereby differs from the square sails.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various
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The tack pin (the pin that holds the tack of the sail to the boom) will be attached, as well as the outhaul (the line that attaches to the clew and is used to tension the foot of the sail).
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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The tack pin (the pin that holds the tack of the sail to the boom) will be attached, as well as the outhaul (the line that attaches to the clew and is used to tension the foot of the sail).
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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The outhaul block gave way, and the topmast studding-sail boom bent in a manner which I never before supposed a stick could bend.
Chapter XXXIII. Cracking on-Progress Homeward-A Pleasant Sunday-A Fine Sight-By-Play 1909
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It was soon ready, the boom topped up, preventer guys rove, and the idlers called up to man the halyards; yet such was still the force of the gale, that we were nearly an hour setting the sail; carried away the outhaul in doing it, and came very near snapping off the swinging boom.
Chapter XXXIII. Cracking on-Progress Homeward-A Pleasant Sunday-A Fine Sight-By-Play 1909
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So saying, I hurried away forward, letting go the trysail outhaul and the main-topsail halliards on my way; passing next to the fore-topsail halliards, which I also let run.
The Castaways Harry Collingwood 1886
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And as I spoke I made a dash at the trysail brails, cast them off, and proceeded to drag upon the fall of the outhaul tackle.
A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886
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The outhaul block gave way, and the topmast studding-sail boom bent in a manner which I never before supposed a stick could bend.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869
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It was soon ready, the boom topped up, preventer guys rove, and the idlers called up to man the halyards; yet such was still the force of the gale, that we were nearly an hour setting the sail; carried away the outhaul in doing it, and came very near snapping off the swinging boom.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869
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The outhaul was run out on the deck, and manned by all the hands that could get hold of it.
Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim Oliver Optic 1859
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