To haul or hoist by turning a winch, windlass, or the like, around which a rope or chain is passed. Nautical †(a) To hoist (sail); (b) to move or…

transitive. To allow (a sheet or other sail-line) to run out to some extent; to let out by releasing. Also with out. ? Obsolete.

To let out or pay out (a cable).

transitive. Nautical. With adverb or adverbial complement. To pull (a rope, etc.) in the specified direction, esp. to tighten it; to haul. Also in…

Nautical. To haul up or raise by means of a rope; and, more generally, to haul, pull, draw with a rope or cable; to haul a cable; to weigh…

transitive. Nautical. To slacken (a rope) by pulling in the opposite direction to that in which it is drawn in hoisting; to release and separate…

Nautical. Often with away, down, off: to slacken (a rope, sail, etc.). to ease up: to come up handsomely with a tackle-fall. Also in forms of…

transitive. Chiefly Nautical. To let or feed out gradually (a rope, cable, etc.); = to pay out at phrasal verbs. Also (occasionally) intransitive…

transitive. To place (a rope or the like) in, on, over, round, etc., in this way; to fix or fasten to something by reeving. Also figurative.

Nautical. To unfasten, untie, undo (a cable, line, or sail).

transitive. Nautical. To slacken (a rope, cable, etc.), or a rope, cable, etc., on a (capstan). Obsolete.

transitive. Nautical. = overhaul, v. 1.

transitive. Nautical. To let or feed out gradually (a rope, cable, etc.); = to pay out at phrasal verbs. Obsolete.

Nautical, etc. transitive. To let go or slacken suddenly (a rope wound round a capstan, etc.); also with the capstan, etc. as object. Also absol.

Chiefly Nautical. transitive. To pass (a rope or cable) through a sheave or other aperture, or round a post, pin, etc.

transitive. To let or feed out gradually (a rope, cable, etc.). Also intransitive.

intransitive. Nautical = overhaul, v. 1. Now rare.

Nautical. To haul or pull upon.

Nautical. To pull at the bight of a rope which is fast at one end to a fixed object and at the other to a movable one; to pull (a sail, etc.) up in…

To put on (cables) end to end. rare.

Nautical. (See quot. 1846.)

intransitive. Nautical. to side out for a bend: to move to one side; (also) to draw a loop towards the opposite end of a cable. Chiefly in imperative…

transitive. To bind (two ropes) together by weaving an additional strand of material between and around them. Cf. seize, v. 10b racking, n.6

Nautical and U.S. To check or stop (a rope or cable) suddenly while running out; to stop or bring up (a boat, etc.) sharply or suddenly, esp. by…