to change (the course of a sailing ship) by veering around sharply instead of tacking normally
boxhaul
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boxhaul
transitive verb
box·hauled, box·haul·ing, box·hauls NauticalTo turn (a square-rigged ship) about by bracing the sails aback and putting the helm to leeward until the vessel swings her stern into the wind, then setting the sails again and rounding up onto the opposite tack.
Origin of boxhaul
box 1 to confine, reverse haulTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present boxhauls, present participle boxhauling, simple past and past participle boxhauled)
- (nautical) To bring a square-rigged ship onto a new tack by hauling back the foresails whilst steering hard round
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