Haul Off

Lest too heavy a surf or any unforeseen accident should prevent this, a cable called a 'haul-off warp' is made fast to an anchor moored out far, by which the lugger men, if need arise, haul their boat out beyond the shallow water. ❋ Thomas Stanley Treanor (N/A)

The coming breaker floated her, and she swung to her haul-off warp. ❋ Thomas Stanley Treanor (N/A)

As she nears the sea, faster still she slides and shoots over the well-greased skids, urged forwards by her own weight and pulled forwards by the crew, who grasp the haul-off warp moored off shore a long way, and at last, as a warrior to battle, with a final bound she meets the shock of the first great sea. ❋ Thomas Stanley Treanor (N/A)

Adams was out on the fore air-box, lifting the haul-off warp out of the cheek, a perilous spot, when the sea was seen; he had just time to get back and clasp both arms round the foremast as the sea broke, overwhelming lifeboat and the crew and the captain of the Royal Arch, who was aft, in a white smother of foam. ❋ Thomas Stanley Treanor (N/A)

'Man that haul-off warp! she'll never get off against them seas unless you man that haul-off warp! ❋ Thomas Stanley Treanor (N/A)

The spectators groaned with horror as the lifeboat disappeared, but the men were straining gallantly at the haul-off warp, and the lifeboat emerged. ❋ Thomas Stanley Treanor (N/A)

Just as the men were all in the lifeboat, and were about to man their haul-off warp to pull the lifeboat out into deep water thereby, a service of the greatest danger on such a night, some one on the beach -- it was James Laming, the present able Kingsdown coxswain, but then a very young man -- even in that black night discovered a great fender floating in the recoil. ❋ Thomas Stanley Treanor (N/A)

She depended, therefore, for her launching against this great sea, on her haul-off warp, which was moored one hundred fathoms out to sea, and by which her fifteen men hoped to pull her out to deep water. ❋ Thomas Stanley Treanor (N/A)

But through it all the lifeboatmen, with stubborn pluck, held on to the haul-off warp and strained for their lives, and at last a great sea came and washed them afloat within its recoil, and covered the lifeboat and her crew. ❋ Thomas Stanley Treanor (N/A)

'The melt haul-off device is especially useful as it gives a direct measure of melt strength, a key variable for fibre production and melt processing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[It's not unusual] [for me] to haul-off on someone [sitting] next to me. ❋ Giggie (2006)

I am going to haul off [all in] [that girl] [mouth]. ❋ God Is My Judgement (2008)

If you turn that boom [blaster] [up one] more decible, I am going to [haul off] and slap you. Come on, honey, let me haul off and kiss you one more time. ❋ Richard Black (2005)