outhaul Naut.
(ˈaʊthɔːl)
[out- 7.]
‘A rope used for hauling out the tack of a jib lower studding-sail, or the clue of a boom-sail’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867): opposed to inhaul.
| 1840 R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxxiii. 126 We were nearly an hour setting the sail; carried away the outhaul in doing it. 1891 Harper's Weekly 19 Sept. 713/4 The forward man sets and furls the jib by means of outhauls and halyards. |