Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Boxhaul

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Boxhaul


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(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).