hes cannot be approached or opened. The hatches of a smaller kind
are distinguished by the name of _scuttles_.

HATCHWAY-NETTINGS. Nettings sometimes placed over the hatchways instead
of gratings, for security and circulation of air. They arrest the fall
of any one from a deck above.

HATCHWAY-SCREENS. Pieces of fear-nought, or thick woollen cloth, put
round the hatchways of a man-of-war in time of action, to screen the
passages to the magazine.

HATCHWAY-STOPPERS. Those for a hempen cable are fitted as a
ring-stopper, only a larger rope. They are rove through a hole on each
side of the coamings, in the corner of the hatchway; and both tails,
made selvagee-fashion, are dogged along the cable. When a chain-cable is
used, the stopper works from a beam on the lower deck.

HAT-MONEY. A word sometimes used for _primage_, or the trifling payment
received by the master of a ship for care of goods.

HAUBERK. _See_ AUBERK.

HAUGH. Flat or marshy ground by the side of a river.

HAUL, TO. An expression peculiar to seamen, implying to pull or bowse at
a single rope, without the assistance of blocks or other mechanical
powers upon it; as "haul in," "haul down," "haul up," "haul aft," "haul
together." (_See_ BOWSE, HOIST, and ROUSE.) A vessel _hauls her wind_ by
trimming the yards and sails so as to lie nearer to, or close to the
wind, and by the power of the rudder shaping her course accordingly.

HAUL ABOARD THE FORE AND MAIN TACKS. This is to haul them forward, and
down to the chess-trees on the weather-side.

HAUL AFT A SHEET. To pull it in more towards the stern, so as to trim
the sail nearer to the wind.

HAULAGE. A traction-way.

HAUL-BOWLINGS. The old name for the able-bodied seamen.

HAUL HER WIND. Said of a vessel when she comes close upon the
wind.--_Haul your wind_, or _haul to the wind_, signifies that the
ship's head is to be brought nearer to the wind--a very usual phrase
when she has been going free.

HAUL IN, TO. To sail close to the wind, in order to approach nearer to
an object.

HAULING DOWN VACANCY. The colloquialism expressive of the promotion of a
flag-lieutenant and midshipman on an admiral's hauling down his flag.

HAULING-LINE. A line made fast to any object, to be hauled nearer or on
board, as a hawser, a spar, &c.

HAULING SHARP. Going upon half allowance of food.

HAUL MY WIND. An expression when an individual is going upon a new line
of action. To avoid a quarrel or difficulty.

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