Crossword-Solution: DOWNHAUL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Downhaul | n. | A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul. |
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| line for hauling down a sail or for increasing the tension at its luff | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with DOWNHAUL (5)
Charley smiled at their efforts, and said, “Give her the topsail, Ole.” The cap at the mainmast head was broken out, and sheet and downhaul pulled flat, amid a scattering rifle fire from the boats; and the _Mary Rebecca_ lay over and sprang ahead faster than ever.
Waiting for a good opportunity, the halyards were manned and the yard hoisted fairly up to the block; but when the mate came to shake the catspaw out of the downhaul, and we began to boom-end the sail, it shook the ship to her centre.
Waiting for a good opportunity, the halyards were manned and the yard hoisted fairly up to the block; but when the mate came to shake the cat's-paw out of the downhaul, and we began to boom end the sail, it shook the ship to her center.
But to hear is of course to obey; and while some of our messmates spring to the downhaul of the jib, and rattle it down the stay, we and another man get out along the bowsprit, and with our feet resting on the slippery, knotted footrope to windward, we clutch hold of the jib, which is hanging down and lashing over to leeward.
Grimalson,' he demanded, 'why were you fooling with that sail, just now?' "'She wasn't setting proper,' explained Grimalson; 'and I told Jarvis to take a swig on the downhaul.