Definition of Inhaul

1. n. A rope used to draw in the jib boom, or flying jib boom.

Definition of Inhaul

1. Noun. (nautical) A rope used to haul in the clew of a sail, or a jib boom ¹

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Definition of Inhaul

1. a line for bringing in a sail [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inhaul

inhales
inhalest
inhaleth
inhaling
inhance
inhancement
inharmonic
inharmonical
inharmonicities
inharmonicity
inharmonies
inharmonious
inharmoniously
inharmoniousness
inharmony
inhaul (current term)
inhauler
inhaulers
inhauls
inhaunce
inhaust
inhausted
inhausts
inhearse
inhearsed
inhearses
inhearsing
inheart
inheld
inherce

Literary usage of Inhaul

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
""When high enough, ease in the jib-stay the lee side—haul in on the inhaul. When on the forecastle, unbend the marrying-line, ..."

2. A manual for naval cadets by John McNeill Boyd (1860)
"Boats should be moored at the boom with a hawser from the forecastle, led through blocks on the bowsprit end and boom, with an inhaul to the gangway. ..."

3. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1864)
"... or getting under the forefoot: an inhaul fitted with a pair of spans or legs should be seized with a leg on each side of the jib traveller so as to ..."

4. Lumbering in the Sugar and Yellow Pine Region of California by Swift Berry (1917)
"minutes, divided as follows: Outhaul 3, hooking three-fourths, inhaul, hungup 4J, block one-half, and landing three-fourths minutes. ..."

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