Word.ws English Dictionary

boxhauls

boxhauls is the third-person singular simple present indicative of boxhaul.

Meaning of boxhaul

Verb

boxhaul (third-person singular simple present boxhauls, present participle boxhauling, simple past and past participle boxhauled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To bring (a square-rigged ship) onto a new tack by hauling back the foresails whilst steering hard round.
    Synonyms:
    box

Questions about boxhauls

What is boxhauls the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Boxhauls is the third-person singular simple present indicative of boxhaul.

Words near boxhauls in the dictionary

  1. boxfuls
  2. Boxgrove
  3. boxhaul
  4. boxhauled
  5. boxhauling
  6. boxhauls
  7. boxhead
  8. boxheads
  9. boxholder
  10. boxholders
  11. boxhole borer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: boxhauls (page history and authors); boxhaul (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “boxhauls.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/boxhauls. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.