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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CLOSEHAULED
CLOSEHAULED
Close
"
hauled
`, a. (
Naut.
)
Defn:
Under
way
and
moving
as
nearly
as
possible
toward
the
direction
from
which
the
wind
blows; --
said
of
a
sailing
vessel.