To haul or hoist by turning a winch, windlass, or the like, around which a rope or chain is passed. Nautical †(a) To hoist (sail); (b) to move or…

Nautical. To haul up or raise by means of a rope; and, more generally, to haul, pull, draw with a rope or cable; to haul a cable; to weigh…

Nautical. transitive. To haul in (a rope or tackle), esp. in a vertical direction. Cf. to round in 2 at phrasal verbs.

to veer and haul: (see quots.).

transitive. Nautical. to freshen the nip: to let out or pull in slightly a rope or cable, so as to change the part exposed to stress or chafing at a…

Nautical. With up: to cast off all turns of rope except one. Also intransitive.

Nautical. To pull at the bight of a rope which is fast at one end to a fixed object and at the other to a movable one; to pull (a sail, etc.) up in…