haul out

Verb

haul out (third-person singular simple present hauls out, present participle hauling out, simple past and past participle hauled out)

1. 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.1898, David Starr Jordan, The Fur Seals and Fur-seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean, page 92
   • "But there are the holluschickie," she said. "The holluschickie haul out by themselves, and Dr. Jordan says that paths are left between the harems, and that as long as the holluschickie keep strictly to the path they are unmolested by the masters of the harem."1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
2. 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.1800, John Hamilton Moore, The New Practical Navigator
   • Haul up and spill the sail, as if you were going to furl it, then haul out the reef-tackles and reef it.1871, Thomas Liddell Ainsley, A Guide Book to the Local Marine Board Examination, page 297
3. 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...1844, The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, page 275
   • If stop-off point is not on the direct run, a charge of 1 cent per ton per mile (minimum 20 miles) for haul out of direct run will be made in addition to stop-off charge, except that such charge will not be made between Sudbury Junction and Sudbury, Ont., on lumber for dressing at Sudbury, Ont....1934, Report of the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada, page 181
4. 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.
   • A small marine railway at Fleming Landing can haul out boats up to 35 feet in length.1953, United States Coast Pilot, page 32
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haul, out.
   • Why not haul out fresh manure and cover?1855, N. B. Cloud, The American Cotton Planter, page 313