hauling 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
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
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
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.
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