haul out
verb- To come out of the water, in order to rest
- To pull on an outhaul in order to extend (a sail) along a spar, or to pull on a reef-tackle to reef (a sail).
- To turn sharply in order to deviate from the current heading or course.
- To pull a boat out of the water; (by extension, loosely) to drydock a ship. · They managed to haul out their motorboat by paying a local to drag it ashore with a line hitched to a truck.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haul, out.
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‘Take in two reefs in the top-sails,’ cried the captain; ‘let go the bowlin’s, haul the brace, lower the top-gallant sails, haul out the reef-tackles on the yards.’”
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