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/hɔl ɔf/ Listen

verb

Haul v. i.

(Naut.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t. "I... hauled up for it, and found it to be an island."

To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

To haul around (Naut.), to shift to any point of the compass; said of the wind.

To haul off (Naut.), to sail closer to the wind, in order to get farther away from anything; hence, to withdraw; to draw back.

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"Haul off" Quotes from Famous Books

... day, Saturday the 24th, we came into the north-east trade-wind, and on Friday the 30th saw Bona Vista, one of the Cape de Verd Islands; we ranged the east side of it, at the distance of three or four miles from the shore, till we were obliged to haul off to avoid a ledge of rocks which stretch out S.W. by W. from the body, or S.E. point of the island, to the extent of a league and a half. Bona Vista by our observation lies in latitude 16 deg. N. and longitude 21 deg. ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr