haul out
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To come out of the water, in order to rest
— The general impression, as derived both from the printed reports and oral communications, seems to be that the vast majority, if not all, of the bachelors haul out on the beaches during the season.
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To pull on an outhaul in order to extend (a sail) along a spar, or to pull on a reef-tackle to reef (a sail).
— It is mostly the way to man the clue-lines and the bunt-lines, to ease off the lee-sheet and clue it up; then man the weather-brace, let go the lee-brace and bunt-lines at the same time; when the sail is spilled, haul out the reef-tackles, and reef as before.
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To turn sharply in order to deviate from the current heading or course.
— She may then steer by the eye, keeping about three times as far off the islet Chapany, as from the shore, until all the islands be in one, she will then be in the narrowest part of the channel; she must then haul out to the westward, so as to get midchannel between the shores of Zanzibar and Chapany, when the latter bears N.W.b.N. (true).
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To pull a boat out of the water; (by extension, loosely) to drydock a ship.
— They managed to haul out their motorboat by paying a local to drag it ashore with a line hitched to a truck.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haul, out.
— Why not haul out fresh manure and cover?
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