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Boxhaul   Listen
verb
Boxhaul  v. t.  (past & past part. boxhauled)  (Naut.) 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).






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