outhaul

American  

[out-hawl] / ˈaʊtˌhɔl /

noun

Nautical.

1. a rope used for hauling out a sail on a boom, yard, etc.

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outhaul British  

/ ˈaʊtˌhɔːl /

noun

1. Also: outhauler.  nautical a line or cable for tightening the foot of a sail by hauling the clew out along the boom or yard

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Etymology

Origin of outhaul

First recorded in 1830–40; out- + haul

Example Sentences

For, as a horse can pull more than it can carry, so a trailer pulled by a motor in a cab can outhaul a truck.

From Time Magazine Archive

Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang and an outhaul feels apprehensive.

From Time Magazine Archive

So saying, I hurried away forward, letting go the trysail outhaul and the main-topsail halliards on my way; passing next to the fore-topsail halliards, which I also let run.

From The Castaways by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell

The spanker is sheeted home not by a sheet, but by an "outhaul," and kept in position not by a "brace," but by the "sheet," and thereby differs from the square sails.

From Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 by Elverson, James

And as I spoke I made a dash at the trysail brails, cast them off, and proceeded to drag upon the fall of the outhaul tackle.

From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Hodgson, Edward S.