HAULER • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Hauler

... OUT-HAULER. A rope used for hauling out the tack of a jib lower studding-sail, or the clue of a ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... helm!—In with the jib!—Hand the maintopsail!" The officers and men, who were at their stations, flew to obey their orders. I trembled as I saw the third mate, with several other men, taking in the jib. Having let go the halliards, and eased off the sheets, hauling away on the down-hauler; and having got it down on the bowsprit-cap, though nearly blown out of the bolt-ropes, stowing it away in the foretopmast staysail-netting. As the bows of the brig now rose and now plunged into the trough of the sea, I thought ...

— Old Jack • W.H.G. Kingston