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Crossword-Clue: line for hauling down a sail or for increasing the tension at its luff 1 answer with 8 letters 💡

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DOWNHAUL
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  1. rope sewn to the foot or luff of a sail to strengthen it 49.21%
  2. A ROPE FOR RAISING OR LOWERING A SAIL OR FLAG 48.70%
  3. Longtime practice for increasing fertility 48.21%
  4. Cracks a little joke to ease tension, say 47.27%
  5. instrument for measuring surface tension by drops 47.06%
  6. slipping down of an internal organ of the body from its normal position 46.81%
  7. Line of hair extending down from a man's navel, in slang 46.40%
  8. line fastened to a corner of a sail for reefing 46.15%
  9. state of throwing down or being thrown down 46.02%
  10. Talks things out to resolve tension 45.71%
  11. Boat having large main sail with no gaff 45.45%
  12. Like a line judge who allows a ball a few inches over the line? 45.45%
  13. Sounds like "scene" to an oracle 45.45%
  14. line or cable for tightening the foot of a sail 44.44%
  15. rope for raising a ship's sail or flag 44.44%
  16. small fore-and-aft sail on a sailing vessel 44.25%
  17. End of a beam supporting a sail on the mast of a square-rigger 43.94%
  18. Declined an invitation 43.80%
  19. RENDER proof against poison by gradually increasing doses of it 43.61%
  20. of or causing tension or strain 43.56%

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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
ALWOPL
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