club-haulv.
/klʌbhɔːl/ Nautical.
To tack a ship by letting the lee-anchor down as soon as the wind is out of the sails, by which her head is brought to wind; when she then pays off, the cable is cut, and the sails trimmed to the other tack: this is only resorted to in very perilous positions, when no other manœuvre is possible.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > get into the current of the wind [verb (transitive)] > cause to go about > by specific method
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1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xv. 234 I am going to club-haul the ship, for there is no room to wear.
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club-hauling n.
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1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship II. 325 Clubhauling is practised when it is expected that a ship will refuse stays upon a lee shore.
1868 Daily Tel. 17 Dec. ‘Club-hauling’ upon a lee-shore is as much a last resort in navigation, as the most desperate operation in surgery.
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